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You go on back, she said. The ants, annoyed, scurried about in all directionS. It was the very truth Lorena had discovered for herself, and it stumped her that Gus would not only know it but come right out with it as if it were an ordinary fact. It was only when he settled in a town to gamble that he liked a woman.

Now she was neither bruised nor thin. They caught the herd not long before dawn. My goodness, you're shy as a colt, she said. Don't I indulge your every whim? he asked.