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He tried to get the other boys to wait on him--in his state he could have been easily robbed and beaten, as he pointed out--but his companions were indifferent to his fate. The old man had said Dee was a _pistolero_. He rode the dun into Lonesome Dove late on a day in August, only to be startled by the harsh clanging of the dinner bell, the one Bolivar had loved to beat with the broken crowbar. He picked up his Henry and walked out of the circle of firelight, meaning to have a few minutes to himself.

Besides, Augustus's name wasn't on the sign, though it was his grave. And, as in the rainstorms, his misery increased to a pitch and then was gradually replaced by fatigue and resignation. Some floated and some merely lay in the shallow water. I done a little scouting for the General once.