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WHEN CALL CAME BACK to Lonesome Dove with the four carpenters he was surprised to find that the whole troop had been barbered and shaved. Pea Eye was just rising from the chair when he rode up. Only Deets, watching silently from a seat on a stump, had not been worked on. All the men were preening as if they had just come out of church. Therese Wanz, the woman who had clipped the considerable pile of hair that was around the barber chair, was bent over a large washtub, wringing out a towel.
"Ma'am, you need to strop your razor-here's one more," Gus said. "I'll take your horse, Woodrow-you've got a treat in store."