He didn't care to discuss the matter with the man. It was painful enough that she had had it and then gone off and left it. Then nesters began to boil out of Doan's Store--it seemed there were twenty or thirty of them. It was her sense that he'd cheated, though she couldn't have said how.
The realization knocked his spirits down several pegs. She had developed a genius for wiggling into thickets and just stopping. It was the first time he had been separated from July on the whole trip, and he was surprised at how much scarier it felt. He had to jump on his horse and lope, just to catch up.
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