I raped women and stole children and burned houses and shot men and run off horses and killed cattle and robbed who I pleased, all over your territory, ever since you been a law, he said. His shirt was as wet from sweat as if he'd been underwater a week, and even his hatband was sweated through. When they found out he had been north to Montana, some tried to hire him, but Jake just laughed at them. Then Mouse began to buck and twist, trying to rid himself of some of the grasshoppers, and almost ridding himself of Newt in the process.
By the time he had three long swigs of the whiskey Newt felt that the world had suddenly changed. Guard it from what? From the Mexicans we stole it from, Dish said. It angered Newt--he was supposed to be making the decisions, not Mouse. Don't that interest you? Not much, Augustus said.
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