Gus always had something to say about everything. He knows perfectly well people don't live for duty. The effort to move the drags was wearing out the horses. He was like some of the young cowboys who had never touched a woman or even spoken to one.
But Deets can read 'em easier than I could read a newspaper. If that deputy can't even stay in a road, I expect you ought to fire him. Call mounted the Hell Bitch, slowly re-coiling his rope. Deets, without answering, removed the rifle from Jake's saddle scabbard.
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