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I had my back to the corner of the triangular field that pointed towards the house.
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And you wanted no part of me when I had so much to give.
As I dug in behind one of the bales we were using as protection, I grudgingly found myself agreeing with Oso's logic, especially when I imagined what would have happened to Missy if Old Knife's large party of screeching warriors had overrun our company.
In the brief moment I had to talk to them before I took my post on the ring of defenses, I indicated I was sickened by the methods men employed to live and trade on the river.
Next to him was a young boy I was sure had sat near me at one of the trading sessions.
At first I thought he had missed.
I saw the clergyman kneel for a moment by the twitching body of the man he had shot, then run back to his position.
Later I would remember what this pompous little man had told me about the worth of a ticket.
One afternoon, upon receiving permission and the necessary instructions from the clerk, I had visited the toilet adjoining the hall.
For although I had crossed a corner of the hall on my way to the toilet I still could not tell for sure how far to the rear the darkness extended.
I could observe the two fans down at the end, but their size in themselves meant nothing to me as long as I had no measure of comparison.
I had for some time been hoping, in vain, for one of the dim figures to pass between the fan vents and myself.
It was, I felt, possible that they were men who, having received no tickets for that day, had remained in the hall, to sleep perhaps, in the corners farthest removed from the counter with its overhead light.
And I had hardly finished my business in the toilet on the aforementioned occasion when the lights in that place, like the hall lights controlled from the switch in the office, flicked off and on impatiently.
I had signed it off on the forms.
Although I had been inside it I had not yet seen it functioning.
I and my
`` I don't have many strays coming to my front door '', he said.
`` All my life '', he said, `` I tried.
`` I hate to leave my garden '', Gavin said.
I loved my garden ''.
`` I never felt better in my life '', Fiske blustered.
Every time I closed my eyes, I saw Gray Eyes rushing at me with a knife.
I could see them in my sights.
I found his chest in my sights.
At the last second I dropped my sights from the bare chest and bright red circle to the chest of his pony.
In my sights I watched him looming bigger and bigger.
Such was my state of mind that I did not question the possibility of this ; ;
I would turn away from my writing in the hope of getting a good look at them but I never quite succeeded.
Now, here was something of obvious importance to me, yet when I reached for the tickets he snatched them away from my hand.
I withdrew my hand.
Having nothing else to do except wait for my forms to be processed, I gave myself over to speculations concerning the hall itself.
This light did not penetrate very far back into the hall, and my eyes were hindered rather than aided by the dim daylight entering through the fan vents when I tried to pick out whatever might be lying, or squatting, on the floor below.
No sooner would I turn my head away from the counter before he would address me, at times quite sharply, in order to bring back my attention.
I and back
`` I feel like getting back to town, that's what I feel like!!
If I don't come back in the house, Breed's going to '' --
`` Got a lot to tend to, but I'll get back quick as I can '', he assured her.
I waved with discretion and moderation to the vague golden faces fading through rising dust and the distortions of the back window glass.
I would have foregone my romantic chances rather than leave a friend sweltering and dusty and -- Well, at least I wouldn't have shouted back a taunt.
I drew back, drawing back my foot for a kick.
`` Hell, yes '', I roared back between dusty lips.
When I fell on my back, I saw a vulture hovering.
Looking back I saw a gray-haired man getting out of his halted car and trying to read our license number.
I looked back at pale ovals framed in the elongated oval of the car's rear window.
Everybody left and I stayed in the pool, then Lou came back alone and leaped into the pool too.
I didn't get a good look at him at all, his back was to me, and I was so scared It was just somebody in a man's suit.
There I got my Colt Special and shoulder harness, slipped my coat on, and went back into the front room.
It'll probably be at least an hour or two before I can check back with you.
`` They knew I was a good sharecrop farmer back in Carolina, but out West was a chance to build a real farm of our own.
I heard a cry from a stoker as a pillar of flame leaped from a hatch and tongued the man's bare back.
`` If I don't come out within half an hour ride back to town and bring out a posse ''.
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