Part 2: Chapters 46-49 Summary

Gus rides to the herd, sending Newt back to watch Lorena. Dish would have been happy to go, but when Jake returns, he's more likely to shoot Dish than Newt. Call rides up just as Newt is leaving, and Gus tells him about Blue Duck's visit. Gus sends Deets to track Blue Duck, but he comes back at dusk, having lost the Indian when his trail led into a creek and never came out. Call rides up to the nearest bluffs and sends Deets to position himself between their camp and Jake's to keep watch. Call's thoughts are on Newt's mother, Maggie, the one love of his life. Dead twelve years, he still can't get her out of his mind, and the memory doesn't lose any of it's sting with time or age. When they'd spoken last, she'd begged...