The fact that Clara had volunteered made everything seem different. Ma called me her Janey, the girl said. While Soupy was fixing his bandana, they looked around and saw streams of sand like small, low clouds blowing in the dim light through the mesquite just to the south. Augustus walked behind and Pea Eye led the other two horses.
For several days they trailed west along the Platte, but when the river curved south, toward Colorado, Call pointed the herd northwest. He had only mentioned it--it had never occurred to him that anyone might want to write him. Again he gave her only a piece of hard dried meat. If she knew anything, it was not to give a man money.
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