He was tired from his long day's walk and didn't get up immediately. Clara would not have been surprised by a gunshot if it had come from Lorena's room. It was only when the men loped off to hunt that the mules were likely to balk. Jake hit her the once as if that was the rule in a game they were playing, and then the life went out of his eyes again and he looked at her with only a tired curiosity.
He took it as a slight and said he would draw his wages and go if that was how things were going to be. At night he thought of her, and imagined her in her room, in her gown. Lorena saw that he was embarrassed, although she had only had the top button to go on her shirt. He rode down the river, looking for tracks.
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