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The other men continued to talk of Augustus's strange request. Call walked over. I expect they'll hang me someday, he said. It's no Indian, she said.

But it was clear to her already that he was one of those men somebody had to take care of. At first he thought the saloon was empty, but then he saw Xavier sitting at a little table near the shadowy end of the bar. Since leaving Dodge he had not seen one person. It was a relief to her when he went away on horsetrading expeditions and she could sleep late, or just lie in bed thinking and reading the magazines she ordered from the East or from England.