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MAGGIE NOW seldom went out. The baby was growing inside her, its kicks stronger every day. Even with her coat on it was obvious to everyone who saw her that she was with child. Fortunately her room was light, with a good south breeze blowing through it most of the time. Woodrow had started taking most of his meals with her, which meant that she did have to go out and shop a little in the market. Since the raid beef had become scarce and pricey. There were plenty of cattle but few hunters bold enough to go into the brush country to slaughter them, for fear of encountering Comanches. Fortunately, Woodrow liked goat, which was available and cheap. Sometimes Gus McCrae would come up and eat with him-he was always tipsy, it seemed.
"I fear my partner will end up a drunkard," Woodrow said, one night after Gus had left. They stood by the window and watched him make straight for a saloon.