Luke was not easy to discourage. A victim of lightning. She heard the leader speak to Blue Duck and then felt their horses crowd around her. Though he talked constantly while he was with the crew, he often developed what he called lonesome feelings and disappeared for ten days at a time.
In his daydreams he fell to reinventing the past, imagining that he had married Clara instead of Elmira. But it relieved his mind, for horsethieves wouldn't attack an outfit as large as theirs. It was the shotgun that had knocked him down--the old fool had whacked him across the shoulder blades with it. Clara loved to watch the way his fingers worked.
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