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Benteen didn’t attempt to question Shorty about his reference to a whiteuntil the fever and deliriuht on it
“Everything was just blackin’ out on ht I did” Shorty was agitated by his own vagueness “I can’t swear one of the riders hite, Benteen The more I think about it, the more I think my eyes was playin’ tricks on me”
“It happens,” Benteen agreed
“I’m sorry It just never occurred to me they’d be watchin’ their backtrail I’d a-been more careful about followin’ ’em”
“Remember that, if there’s a next time And don’t try to take theood le “Get some rest I want you out of ”
Before Shorty was moved to the bunkhouse, Lorna attacked it She started bydown the walls, floors, and bed fraest solution of hot lye water she could make Over the cowboys’ objections, she boiled their clothes and bedding and laid them out in the September sun to dry
When she was finished, the bunkhouse ca Every bone and muscle in her body ached, and her hands felt raw fro lye soap, but she looked on the results with satisfaction
Her pleasure wasn’t shared by Vince when he stepped into the bunkhouse and wrinkled his nose at the sharply clean smell “It just don’t seem like home anymore” He mumbled the complaint and shuffled past Lorna to his bunk
When she mentioned the re of her actions “You didn’t expect to be thanked for interfering, did you?”
Lorna realized she was fighting alone in a man’s world
When Jessie Tru harassed by Indians during the trip He figured they had run off twenty head of steers and ten horses, but no one was injured After the incident with Shorty, Benteen gave orders for the men to work in pairs and carry their rifles with them The same day Jessie returned, Zeke Taylor accidentally shot hiood pair of boots
The black buggy didn’t stop by the cabin Lorna watched from theas it went directly to the house on the knoll Her lips thinned into a straight line Turning, she g
rabbed up the black shawl and swung it around her shoulders
Webb was running to the cabin to tell her of Mr Giles’s arrival when she walked out the door He was thrilled when he discovered they were going to the house to see hi too fast for little Arthur to keep up, so she straddled him on her hip and carried him, while Webb cantered ahead on a makebelieve horse
Bull Giles showed his surprise at her approach Usually he ca theled to be put down She let hi friend