Lonely Dove
He didn’t believe anything of the kind—he just liked to stimulate the boy once in a while, and Pea too, though Pea was an
exceptionally hard man to stimulate, being insensitive to most fears. Pea had just sense enough to fear Comanches—that
didn’t require an abundance of sense. Mexican bandits did not impress him.
Newt had more imagination. He turned and looked across the river, where a big darkness was about to settle. Every now
and then, about sundown, the Captain and Augustus and Pea and Deets would strap on guns and ride off into that
darkness, into Mexico, to return about sunup with thirty or forty horses or perhaps a hundred skinny cattle. It was the