Why not? Jake asked. Go south, Augustus said. Probably the men would go on soon, though Luke seemed to be talking to the girls happily. If she left, she just left--left.
He might slip off and find the woman in Nebraska. Then Jake started talking about Denver, and how when they got there it would be easy to make their way across to San Francisco. We're all practically starved. Though he was fairly sure now he wasn't going to die, he kept having spells of lightheadedness in which his vision wavered and he tended to run off at the mouth.
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