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The saloon’s dooryard was a beaten dirt square bisected by a long hitching rail with a watering trough beneath. “It’s called closing the year. His other hand went to her hair and combed along the side of it, silk at her temple. “Trouble,” he repeated.

le of scolding like jays or rooks, but they tried to flutter away from him when he opened their cages. but strong intuition. He slapped it into the hand of the man who had turned toward the sound of his voice, and pointed at random to one of those who had not. It was good to have a reprieve—months yet before she would have to live up to her end of the bargain—but a re