It seemed miraculous to Deets that Po could take a plain chunk of wood and make it into a little woman figure. I don't know if I'll ever get Ellie back to Fort Smith. A man as large as Hutto would eventually stretch out any rope or piece of rawhide if he kept trying. Gus is too sly for the girls.
But every man in the Territory had insisted on buying the deputy a drink since then; perhaps he had been capable of sobriety before he became a hero. McCrae came up he made it plain that he harbored a grudge against them and would not be sorry to see them come to grief. There were plenty along the canyon, though some had to be pried out of the dirt. Or else a bear got her.
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