The day was as hot as any they remembered from south Texas--the distances that had spawned yesterday's wind refuse This is a funny time of night to be starting out, ain't it? I guess it is, July said, but he started anyway. I sat there all night in that room with your baby. He rolled around in the wagon moaning and sweating.
You don't want to hit it in the dark. They don't bother with crazies. Such talk, she said. The notion that he might be sent on a job like that was ridiculous--living with Elmira must have made July go crazy if he was thinking such thoughts.
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