Jake rode right up to the cook fire, though Augustus could tell from his manner that he was nervous. The two nearest neighbors came--German families. This is Captain Call and Captain McCrae. I'm much obliged, Augustus said.
He was chewing on some jerky he had pulled out of a saddlebag, but it seemed he barely had the strength to eat. Even you can't stop inconvenient things from happening, Call, he said. Now it was just he who would have to do all the fighting, if it came to that. Another shy lady who must have got abducted.
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