15/02/2026 04:10

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I'll wait till Gus gets back. It won't last long. In a few minutes Blue Duck had won her back--not only what the Indians owned but what the white men owned too. I knew he was too young.

Jake was not called on to help, and he didn't. He had already turned two stampedes--something no one else in the outfit had the skill to manage. I don't need my back rubbed, she said. Why, I'll be a wife, she said.