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Then he realized he had just revealed something he was not supposed to tell, and to boys too. I've worried you enough for one night. She looked in his face and saw he was frightened--he groaned, trying to grip her shoulder with his sore hand. Let him be, he said.

That's eight children. That one's barely in the Territory, Dan said. Somebody feistier than you might ride in tomorrow for all I know. He didn't want it.