That was bold, Call said. He himself had done it and got away with it--had been a Ranger in Texas rather than a lawyer in Tennessee. He could take Pea and Deets and maybe the boy, and they would look for Gus until they found him. Probably her husband, Joe Cole, had bored her for twenty years, leaving her with a taste for argument.
He mounted his night horse and rode quickly out of camp. No doubt in Fort Smith the word would be out that instead of sticking to orders he had run off with the first young girl he could find. Now, Lorie, you relax, he said. Call waited, anxious to know where Blue Duck had gone, or whether it had really been him.
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