Pea Eye let his mind turn slowly. The damn fight was over here. His father had fallen drunk out of a barn loft in Mississippi and broken his neck. Now I guess we'll get lightning-struck.
Perhaps Lorie had not welcomed such boldness--perhaps she had recognized that Jake was not a man to depend on. They said she had moved to another bar, up the street--a cowboy was even kind enough to point out the bar. In their thinking it had taken on a magical quality, partly because no one really knew anything about it. It was a relief to find he could breathe.
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