“If we can. On a night not long after Jonas’s conversation with Chancellor Rimer, she determined to drink herself into oblivion. They were for it, all right—there no longer seemed any doubt of that. Depape rode out the sunrise end of Ritzy’s only street, trotted his horse up the flank of the first hill, and paused at the top for a single look back.
“In the wreck of Gilead. Reynolds watched until he was gone, then took his seat at Coral Thorin’s desk, shuffled the cards, and continued the game which Jonas had left half-finished. “I’ve never asked a girl to ride out with me, or if she’d accept a visit of me. She took the funnel from under the bar, stuck it in the neck of the bottle, and poured the shot of whiskey back in.
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