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I could argue that, Call said. Who's that? he asked. Call won't let a horsethief off, and he's right. The Rainey boys looked as if they might fall off their horses.

Driving them back to the Canadian had made the Rangers heroes for a time, though Call had known it was hollow praise. Lying with her face almost on the ground, she was the first to hear the horses--only she didn't really know what it was, or take any hope from it. But they had reached the Milk River and winter was coming, so he had to break the habit or else lose most of the men and probably the cattle too. He grinned in the way that made her think of death.