Soupy will win ever cent you boys can earn in the next ten years. But that boy's his, and don't you tell me he ain't. Cholo had been in town when the hanging took place and reported that the hanging had gone smoothly. She don't have much to say right now.
She kept the money for her children, she said--but Bob could never be sure she wasn't keeping it so she could leave if she took a notion. With his mind made up, he felt cheerful--it always gave a man a lift to escape death. What done it? Dish asked. The bear rose on his hind legs again, still snarling--one side was soaked with blood.
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