His horse has been behaving all right and neither of us has been sick. During the heat of the day mirages in the form of flat lakes appeared, so vivid that a time or two he almost convinced himself there was water ahead, although he knew there wasn't. Almost as amazing was that she liked to walk. I guess if I leave you'll whittle up the whole dern town before I get back, he said.
In the early morning he would stand and relieve himself in plain sight of her, grinning and looking at her while he did it. Good lord, we're a bunch of beauties, Dish said, surveying the crew. He bitterly regretted not having hung onto some of the jerky, or his rifle, or something. Some days he felt so little interest in the herd and the men that he could simply have ridden off and left them to make the best of things.
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