AUGUSTUS SPENT HALF THE FIRST DAY finding the tracks, for Blue Duck had been cool enough to lead Lorena t Would you want to go? Oh, sure, Augustus said. I'm too full of liquor to be chousing horses in the dark. He felt a terrible regret that he hadn't had the ten dollars then.
It was the kind of lapse he had been subject to all his life: things that were clearly dangerous didn't worry him enough. If the Captain had been his father, surely he would have mentioned it at some point in the last seventeen years. And I'll give you some advice, too. He regretted that he had to take Gus to the women, but felt it was part of his obligation to deliver the notes Gus had written when he was dying.
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