Lonely Dove
He kept looking to the east, hoping to see a little redness on the horizon, but the horizon was
still black.
He was thinking about the morning, and how nice it would be to cross the river and bring the horses through the town,
when the peaceful night suddenly went off like a bomb. They were on the long chaparral plain not far south of the river
and were easing the horses around a particularly dense thicket of chaparral, prickly pear and low mesquite when it
happened. Newt had dropped off the point a little distance, to allow the horses room to skirt the thicket, when he heard