Call's spirits hadn't improved much. Usually he came to josh and tease, much as he had in life. The only thing there had been to laugh at was Allen O'Brien getting pitched into a pile of prickly pears by a bronc. Even Dish Boggett was in a fever to go.
The crew came back from Fort Worth hung over and subdued. We ain't lost, Call said, annoyed suddenly, and that black man could track you across the coals of hell. Soon lightning was crashing all around and the thunder came in big, flat cracks, as if a building had fallen down. When told that most of the cattle had been gathered below the Mexican border he was astonished, but not too astonished to buy two hundred head.
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