She stopped feeling quite so nervous, and she watched the baby chew on his fat little fist. If she went toward Kansas, then she was only a few stars to the north, and yet, on the earth, it would take him days to get to her. The old Mexican had wrapped the infant in a flannel robe and brought it to Elmira to see, but Elmira didn't look at it. The old love and the new stood by his horse's head, neither of them looking quite calm.
Augustus regretted that his preoccupation with the arrows had made him so lax that he had failed to protect the horses. Newt had let his eyelids fall. Then, after heating the needle and letting it cool, he carefully probed the swelling at the base of Jake's thumb. Why'd you do that? the man in the black coat asked.
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