He had hoped for a creek or a bank or a gully--something he could get down into and make his stand--but he was on the flat prairie as far as the eye could see. It's such a fair day, we might want to picnic a little later. In the short lulls in the wind he could hear the clicking of long horns, as the cattle bumped into one another in the dankness. He remembered walking into the post office in Fort Worth and getting the letter that told him about Ellie.
He asked in the morning if there was anything special she wanted him to do and she shook her head. Then it began to rain in earnest. But the girl on the wagon seat was already a wife. She might be fast, but rabbits were surely faster.
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