I bet it's them. Only the one talking it the most is kilt now. Maybe Indians had got on the boat and killed all the whiskey traders. He himself had never been more than two days' hard ride from the border in his life.
What if I get lost? Pea Eye said. We might not last long if we did, Augustus said. She didn't miss the fear, either--the fear that someday Gus would be off somewhere and Blue Duck would come back. But the more Augustus thought about the insults they had been offered in the bar--a bar where once they had been hailed as heroes--the more it bothered him.
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