The man seemed very young, which is why she had taken him for a cowboy. JOE KNEW RIGHT OFF that something was bothering July, because he didn't want to talk. She was in a spot if some man was wanting to marry her. She had taken him in and fed him, saved his wife and cared for his child, and yet he did wish she would just leave him alone.
Luke had ignored her on the trip upriver, but when he woke up he hopped out of the wagon and came right over, a grin on his weaselly face. Sean had been forced to ride in the wagon all night, more worried for his life than his reputation. But he wouldn't leave her under the tree. It was something she knew that Zwey hadn't noticed.
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