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"DO YOU BELIEVE that tale about the beetles and the stopwatch? " Augustus asked. Call sat with his back to a large rock, looking off the edge of the canyon; the wind had died, the sleet had stopped blowing, but it was still bitter cold. In the clear night they could see Comanche campfires, far below them and halfway across the Palo Duro Canyon.
"There's forty campfires down there," Call commented. "There's enough Indians in this canyon to wipe us out six times."