He felt a terrible need to turn things back, all the way back to the time when he and Roscoe and Joe and Elmira had all been in Arkansas. At that moment Sally was chattering away to young Newt, who was getting his first taste of conversation with a sprightly young lady. If you don't last, you'll be easy to bury. He feared for them, and also feared the effect on his wife if one of them should die.
Sometimes he thought she did, but when he thought it over he always concluded that he had just been imagining things. Even Dish Boggett was in a fever to go. IT CAME TO RANKLE CALL that Gus had left his half of the cattle herd to the woman. Jake even asked her to marry him once, in a joking way--for Jake was not the marrying kind and she hadn't been then, either.
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