After all, the first words Pea had said was that they had just missed Deets. The dead can help us if we let them, and if they want to, he said. You're still yellow, he went on to point out. Ellie felt angry--here she had come such a distance, and she had found him, yet she couldn't make him hear.
She huddled in the wagon, scared, and spent her days wishing they would come to Ogallala. But if he stood up to do some errand she watched him, and if the errand took him outside she got up and went out too. The whole bunch of you couldn't kill one man. He was chewing on some jerky he had pulled out of a saddlebag, but it seemed he barely had the strength to eat.
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