He missed completely and the man slowly raised his own pistol, but before he could fire Gus rode back into the firelight and shot with his rifle, knocking Monkey John back into the pack. Newt and the Rainey boys had begun to talk of whores. Jensch, the wife of one of the German farmers, weighed over three hundred pounds. You was always slow to see the pint, Jake, he said.
He handed her twenty dollars. It was a problem she had had before. It's the plague, Deets said. More and more the thought came to him that Gus was probably dead.
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