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Sometimes he woke up in the middle of the night thinking of Ann, and then could not get back to sleep.

It could be some kind of trick Budd had thought up.

He cleaned his shovel, left it against the fence, picked up his Winchester, and started downstream.

`` Get up.

He picked her up, sliding one hand under her shoulders, the other under her knees, and carried her into the house.

Any lingering suspicion that this was a trick Al Budd had thought up was dispelled.

When the meal was ready, he told Jones to wash up, and going into the front room, woke the girl.

She rubbed her eyes and stretched, then sat up, her hands going to her hair.

`` I get up early.

`` I made you so you could stand up.

`` Help me up, Clay.

Help me up, I feel kind of stiff ''.

The two men whipped their horses into town and flung themselves up the steps of the saloon, crying their intelligence.

They mounted up and rode slowly behind the others at a safe distance.

He was too old -- when he passed up and through the corridor of pines that lined the trail he could see ahead, he was passing from life.

`` I'm going to walk up to the horses, bold as brass, pretending I'm one of the guerrillas.

Dean came rushing up.

The rest of us can fort up in the house and hang on until you get back.

We'll still have the rifle, and I might be able to round up some more.

His shout had been taken up and repeated.

All were carrying guns they had seized up, but they were half-clad or hardly clad at all.

A man was standing in the open door of the lighted orderly room a few yards to Mike's left, but he, too, suddenly made up his mind and went racing to join the confused activity at the east end of the stockade.

He picked up the powder canister and ran out.

Using his hands as a trumpet he shouted, `` Fort up!!

Fort up!!