The fellow Dupont quarrelled with and shot was a deserter named Connors.

We found the body.

Now where do you suppose Le Fevre is ?" Hughes stared into the fire, nervously pulling his beard.
"Wall, I 'd say in west yere somewhar along the Cimarron.

'T ain't likely he had a compass, an' the wind wus from the nor'east.

Best they could do, the ponies would drift.