It was a dizzying feeling, and a little frightening. I don't care if it's hard, Lorena said. Now she was content to ignore her own failure, but he had no doubt that if she judged the time to be right she would try again. Watching Clara, Cholo felt sad.
He looked down at Pea Eye and Deets, and at the boy. She wanted to, and imagined how angry they would be if they woke up one morning and she was dead so they could get no more from her. Jasper Fant sometimes even got off and walked when he was on the far side of the herd, reasoning that the Indians would be less likely to spot him if he was on foot. Once, too, he had gone with Deets and Pea to deliver a small bunch of horses to Matagorda Bay, and had seen the great gray ocean.
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