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"IT'S SUCH A FAR WAY BACK, Woodrow," Augustus said. "I swear I wish we hadn't gone so far from town."
He said it at night, as they were burying two men whose scalped and cut-open bodies they found just at dusk, at the foot of a small hill. The two men had been traveling in a little wagon, with nothing much in it except axes. The Indians hadn't destroyed the wagon, but they had used the axes to hack the two men open.