Part Three: Chapters 87-89 Summary

When the four riders approach, Clara is upstairs finishing with Bob, and Martin is with the girls. Something about one of the riders strikes Clara as somehow familiar. Lately, all they'd seen were soldiers, one of whom brought news that a woman and a buffalo hunter had been scalped and killed. July turns white as a ghost, and Clara hadn't heard the story but she could tell from July's face that something was very wrong. She takes him up to the house and the girls fill her in, but Clara is losing her patience for his constant mooning over a woman who doesn't care about him. The girls pick up on it right away, and tell Clara not to chase July off. They like him and want him to stay, but are afraid that Clara will be...