Lonely Dove
The harder he strained to
hear, the more uncertain he felt about what he heard. He would never have suspected that a simple thing like sound
could produce such confusion.
“I might hear it,” Newt said, feeling keenly that the remark was inadequate. “It’s a real thin sound,” he added. “Haven’t
they got birds down here? It could be a bird.”
Call drew his rifle from his saddle scabbard. Newt started to get his, but Call stopped him.
“You won’t need it, and you might just drop it,” he said. “I dropped one of mine once, and had to go off and leave it.”