A different man would have resulted in a different track. They got back to Wilbarger a little after sundown, before the plains had begun to lose the long twilight. Dish remembered the night before he had hired on with the Hat Creek outfit, when Gus had lent him two dollars for the same purpose on which he had apparently spent fifty. Ain't decided, Bert said.
It was clear that the grave marker puzzled them. Take Pea, Call said. That would be better than if he found it out from somebody else. I guess leaving the easy pickings around here has put you out of sorts.
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