Jake stood looking out the window while she stripped the bed. If you come in with us you could be a cattle baron yet. Might be saving it for Christmas. July thought of Ellie, sitting in the cabin loft all day, dangling her legs--no people came in at all except him and Joe, and Roscoe once in a while when they caught a catfish.
Call wondered what he meant by that, but didn't ask. Bob might see it, think it was theirs. She came and sat down in a chair, looking at him in the intent way she had, as if reading in his face the events of the fifteen years he had spent away from her. It's all right, honey, it's just bugs, Augustus said.
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