We've got to protect this frontier. How could Bol just go? He had always been the cook, and yet in five minutes he was as lost to them as if he _had_ died. Since they were traveling along the same route, an opportunity might yet arise to demonstrate that he was a better man than Jake Spoon. That's what started it.
He remembered how tired Jake looked, too tired even to care that he was going to be hung. He rode through Denver, remembering that he had never sent Wilbarger's brother the telegram he had promised, notifying him of Wilbarger's death. Ellie might be in trouble, he said, talking mainly to himself. She didn't want to say July's name.
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