While they ate, Wilbarger's cowboys began to move the herd toward the river. Now that he was going, he was not sure why he had decided to go. How would she feel if she could know what he had got himself into, sitting on a horse with a heavy gun beneath his leg? So he got up and followed Jennie up the stairs, walking carefully so as not to embarrass himself.
That wagon won't be here for an hour, Clara said. I forgot to. I was up with this baby all night--you know how colicky he is. I didn't used to down in Lonesome Dove, she said.
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