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Now a new and worse fear struck him. He was preoccupied and made such a sloppy job of it that Louisa burst out laughing. I buried Wilbarger myself, not to mention his two cowboys. When he reappeared on the vast plain, he was only a tiny speck.

Now, when he did find Elmira, it would only be to tell her that her son was dead. It hardly seemed possible to lose two horses on one trip, when he had never lost a horse before in his life, but it was a fact he had to face. They're just standing there. At the sight of the bears their horses bolted and raced back to the herd.