Lonely Dove
Augustus felt his own pangs—irked, mainly, that Jake had had a glimpse of Clara, whereas he himself had to make do with
an occasional scrap of gossip. At sixteen she had been so pretty it took your breath, and smart too—a girl with some sand,
as she had quickly shown when both her parents had been killed in the big Indian raid of ’56, the worst ever to rake that
part of the country. Clara had been in school in San Antonio when it happened, but she came right back to Austin and ranthe store her parents had started—the Indians had tried to set fire to it but for some reason it didn’t catch.