Call took the opportunity to have a blacksmith completely rebuild the buggy. In a way it pleased him--he had never cared for totally docile horses. Well, Newt's alive, he said. But she had never let him get the upper hand, though it seemed to him she had surrendered it without a fight to a dumb horse trader from Kentucky.
He sat on his horse a moment, looking into the night. I'd feel better in my mind if you'd stay with your party, he had said. There's a man who sells horses west of Ogallala. I won good money playing cards back at the Fort.
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