They might even have hired a new sheriff by now. He had heard of fortune-tellers, but thought they usually did it with cards. Probably he had seen Elmira recently, but when he thought about it he couldn't think when. The shooting seemed not to have registered with her yet.
They've had to sing hymns to a fiddle ever since. It hadn't been Jake's fault. All he wanted was to be warm again. Why do that? Because then we'd be shut of them, Augustus said.
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