They're dead enough. Suppose I was a whore, he said. In her mind she had already left Lonesome Dove; she was simply waiting for the night to end so they could really leave. The first day out he brought down a deer at a distance Jake would have considered impossible.
With Gus pressing him, it was his nature to resist, but with Gus gone he didn't find it so distasteful to consider that the boy was his son. If she ever got a chance she would kill the man, in revenge for all the painful hours she had spent watching his indifferent back. I doubt we'll lose many. You was sent to watch her, Jake said.
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