But Call went. Clara stood listening as their footsteps went up the stairs. It never hurts to be ready, he said, quoting an old saying of the Captain's. Lippy and the cook will look after you.
He accepted a glass of whiskey, though, and then another. While Jake had been fixing the pack horse Lippy had come out on the steps of the saloon and waved his lip at her one more time. Come in, Lorie, he said several times. After that the tracks bore straight for the northwest, so unerringly that Augustus soon found he didn't need to pay much attention to them.
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