Joe was a willing worker and could earn his keep until he could come back and get him. NEWT, THE RAINEY BOYS and Pea Eye got to go into town the next afternoon. Gus was perfectly patient with her silence. The crew had been made melancholy by the approaching clouds.
One of the rocks had just missed him--he didn't want to move and risk interfering with Janey's aim. Before he had been gone from Font Smith much more than three hours, he had the bad luck to run into a bunch of wild pigs. All he knew about the sheriff was that Jake Spoon had run from him, which wasn't much to go on. They covered five or six miles at a leisurely pace.
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