"Anywhere."
"Aw' right. Set over there. They may try the back porch. I'll jest set here a spell, n'then I'll kind er mosey 'round. … Plug the first fella that tries a shutter, Hal."
"You bet."
Clinch came over and held out his hand.
"You said a face-full that time when you says to me, `Clinch,' you says,
`Eve is a lady.' … I gotta fix her up. I gotta be alive to do it.
… That's why I'm greatly obliged to yeh, Hal."
He took his rifle and walked slowly toward the pantry.
"You bet," he muttered, "she is a lady, so help me God."
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Episode Three
On Star Peak