If you go trailing after that woman, either the Indians will kill you or that buffalo hunter will, or you'll just get lost and starve. She would die if he touched her, she felt. It was soon plain that they were only chasing two men. She took a pair of men's brogans from beside the table and began to lace them on her bare feet.
She was afraid to turn him on his belly for fear he might suffocate, but she would hold him on his side for an hour, sometimes napping as she held him. It just had one cell, and the lock on that didn't work--when it was necessary to jail someone they had to wrap a chain around the bans. It was a cool night, but the lamp made the little room stuffy. Though he had been more or less scared of Clara all day, and was still a little scared of her, there was something powerfully appealing about her, too.
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