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That Gus had seen fit to leave her on the Platte made him terribly irritable. The mother, who had scarcely touched her sons before they left, stood straight up and cried. Jake or somebody might be riding after them. Now something would have to be done with them before he could even ask Roscoe all the questions he wanted to ask about Elmira.

We'll get you out, Elmira said. The thirty dollars is all I got, he said several times. It was a bone necklace, and after looking at it for a time she realized it was made of fingers--human fingers. Gus, Deets said.