Jake looked around. He was ready to agree with her that Gus had been foolish to make such a request of him. Did he keep his bond? Betsey asked. Men were all strange, but Xavier was stranger than many.
But then there might not be that much crime in Arkansas now. He didn't look proper, he knew. He fell out of his wagon drunk one night and froze to death not two hundred yards from a saloon. Call had heard from someone that she had been raised rich, in the East, with servants to comb her hair and help her into her shoes when she got up.
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