I may take to barbering yet, Jake said, annoyed that Gus had seen fit to help Lorie again. It was a very inconvenient life, and, as usual when traveling got bad, he felt resentful of July for having married a woman who would run off. He wanted to go back to sleep. In Missouri, where he had gone to testify at the trial, there was much talk of Kansas.
Jake knew he was trapped. I like it myself, though it ain't no Alabama. When he saw the tiny white pellets bouncing on the grass he assumed he was at last seeing snow. Let's sit out, he said.
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