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Let's cross the river, Dan Suggs said. Jury of one. Even Pea Eye had begun to worry about him. That baby isn't going to wait for her to get strong.

It didn't seem right for him to ride and her to walk. The horses were smallish, but still fat from a summer's grazing. Now there was July Johnson, a man whose love was nearly mute. July got down and checked Hutto's knots, which indeed were slipping.