But when he came to the town he turned and went around it, spooked at the thought of all the people. I came here to get away from money, he said. I took one in the lung and another seems to have ruint my hip. The vast plain was beautiful, but it had reduced Pea Eye to a scarred wreck.
She was too smart--he had the sense that she could figure out anything. I ain't running for the bushes, if that's what you think, he said. At close range she looked younger, perhaps only fifteen or sixteen. She didn't know where she was, for the plains stretched around, empty and bare, as far as she could see.
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