The Captain would hang you, if he caught you with a stolen horse, Pea Eye said. He says he'll kill me when he gets ready. But she put a grasshopper down my neck, the younger girl said. We ain't rich yet.
I figured she come over here and married Gus. No, they're living up in Fort Worth, Ned said. She wants you to bring the coffin, she said to July, watching him. And she stubbornly kept her own money, year after year--for the children's education, she said, although one by one the three boys died long before they were old enough to be sent anywhere.
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