Deets watched the boy, hoping he wouldn't chop his foot off cutting the wood. One of you gentlemen will need to help me with these knots. Had you been married long? she asked. For two weeks, through the spring evenings, Newt was very happy.
It's a nervous disease, he said. The country was beautiful, with plenty of grass and timber enough in the creek bottoms for building a house and corrals. This is just fortune hunting. He had four ten-dollar gold pieces in his pocket, which he had intended to slip the boys on the sly.
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