They're enterprising pigs. The sudden appearance of a Comanche would not have affected them as much. He might not be too far ahead. Though the old man had walked the whole distance, using his ax-handle cane, he seemed not particularly tired.
He set up the old tent of Wilbarger's in a sheltered spot on the creek, and spent his nights in it, sometimes building a small fire in front of it. He said he was traveling with a man and a boy, Augustus said. He knew he was in a fine fix, for it was still five hundred miles to the south Guadalupe and the buggy was ruined. She never explained who Bill was, but Roscoe let it go.
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