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“I don’t think you should give them candy every time we co it”

“And they’ll alant to coet their parents’ trade” He declared his motive openly

“You have certainly expanded since I was here in the spring,” Lorna relanced around at the improvements he’d made A second room had been added on, which was now the saloon area and separate frolass s in the front and shelves to hold his goods It see it according to her father’s

“Fro so her purchases in a box

“Yes, we are building a home” She tried not to sound too proud

“A mansion, by all accounts,” he chided her modesty

“It certainly see in now”

“When will it be finished?”

“I was hoping we could celebrate Christmas in it, but I doubt if the furniture will arrive by then We plan to move into it sometime this winter”

“It’s only fitting that you and your husband have a grand home,” Frank Fitzsimmons assured her “Your husband is bull of the woods around here I hear he’s running upwards of twenty thousand cows on his range”

“Really,” Lorna e She opened her cloth purse “How much do I owe you?”

“I’ll just put it on your account,” he replied

She hadn’t known Benteen had set up an account at the store It was so her, but she didn’t let on to the storekeeper

“Of course” She smiled thinly

“I’ll carry this out to the wagon for you” The fat-htest exertion, and waddled out from behind the counter “Did someone ride in with you?”