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He stopped talking and listened. It was crazy behavior. He got himself a hunk of beef and some of the old Mexican's peppery stew and went back to where Call and Gus were sitting. The more she thought about it, the less hospitable she felt toward the man.

I'm with Jake now, Lorena said, merely stating the obvious. He himself had never been more than two days' hard ride from the border in his life. Why go to Montana? Well, that's where we started for, he said. I don't care if it's hard, Lorena said.