She made no sound, but Hutto must have sensed something, for he whirled and let go a blast with the shotgun. McCrae were looking at something downriver. The old _pistolero_ didn't owe the Hat Creek outfit that kind of effort, and Call reluctantly raised the subject with him. One day they met two dirty-looking men with greasy beards and six or seven guns between them.
He's a traveled man and ain't put off by hardship. Lorena knew the cowboys were near, but she didn't look out of the tent. Even Betsey, his favorite, couldn't persuade him, and Betsey could usually get July to do anything she wanted him to do. It would be discouraging to have to give him up--she told herself if the mother didn't want him bad enough to come and get him, then the mother was too foolish to have him.
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