Cherry picks up the story about where Mat left off. He describes Yank, whom Clatoo picks up next, as a broken-down cowboy who used to break horses and mules thirty or forty years before. Yank walks leaning forward because he has had so many broken bones over the years. Everyone is feeling proud. No one talks very much. Next they pick up Dirty Red. Clatoo drops everyone off near the Marshall plantation and tells them to gather and wait at the graveyard so that everyone can walk to Mathu's together. The seven men trudge along toward the meeting place. Cherry notices that several of them look like they can barely carry their guns, much less shoot them. They are surrounded by cane, with the Marshall property on their right. Now it isn't Marshall.....
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