Now I guess we'll get lightning-struck. He felt a terrible need to turn things back, all the way back to the time when he and Roscoe and Joe and Elmira had all been in Arkansas. Don't fret, he said. Zwey looked surprised.
A troop of soldiers had come through, going west, but soldiers wouldn't have taken Elmira. She didn't like being too close to the cowboys. The men had never known or imagined such cold. I still don't want no towns, she said a little later, beginning to tremble at the thought of all the men that would be in them.
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