Gamblers eventually showed up in a town somewhere, and could always be found. He yanked the saddlebags and bedrolls off both horses and was hiding them under the bank when Gus stopped firing for a moment. If Elmira was indeed gone, that constituted a serious problem. He had never been one for talk when there was work to be done--it was his big point of difference with Gus, who could do nothing without talking.
Their horses could have spooked. I'm getting too foolish to live. All but the two of them went away after they grew up, and Benny seemed to feel that July should have gone away too. No, Augustus said, feeling sick suddenly.
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