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I wouldn't do it. Lorena sat in the water, her clothes soaked, not caring. No, just tuckered out, Call said. You've just been around me one day, Clara said.

The nesters were all grouped around the body. Clara, in fact, was getting angry; Lorena looked sad. He had taken off his sheriff's star for a few days--a precaution he often took in a strange town. A couple of small roots still held, but the mules kept going and the stump was soon free.