I doubt it, July said. He pointed out to her that she was welcome to ride--she weighed practically nothing, and anyway they weren't traveling fast enough to tire a horse. Besides, without a wife handy you won't be getting no kids, and kids are a wonderful source of free labor. Deets had ridden on, to evaluate the trail.
Either way I'd be dead. If one young man supposed it meant there was a livery stable nearby, others would do the same. Sometimes he felt so bad about things that he didn't know if he could keep going much longer without knowing where she was. He was one of those men who have a laugh you like to hear.
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