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WHEN AUGUSTUS LEFT Austin he had no aim, other than to ride around for a while, alone. To be in Austin was to be under orders: the Governor was always summoning them or sending them off, consulting with them or pestering them about details of finance that Augustus had not the slightest interest in.
As a rule he did not, like his friend Call, enjoy solitude. Woodrow was virtually incapable of spending a whole evening in the company of his fellow men-or women either, if Maggie's account was to be trusted. At some point in the evening Woodrow Call would always quietly disappear. He would slip off in the night, ostensibly to stand guard, when there was not a savage within one hundred miles. Prolonged stretches of company seemed to oppress him.