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Chapter VII
HilmafollowedthefarmwagonintheDerricks’carry-all,withMagnusandhiswife.Duringallthatridenoneofthemspokeaword.Ithadbeenarrangedthat,sinceQuienSabewasinthehandsoftheRailroad,HilmashouldcometoLosMuertos.TothatplacealsoAnnixter’sbodywascarried.
Lateronintheday,whenitwasalmostevening,theundertaker’sblackwagonpassedtheDerricks’HomeranchonitswayfromHooven’sandturnedintothecountyroadtowardsBonneville.Theinitialexcitementoftheaffairoftheirrigatingditchhaddieddown;thecrowdlongsincehaddispersed.BythetimethewagonpassedCaraher’ssaloon,thesunhadset.Nightwascomingon.
Andtheblackwagonwentonthroughthedarkness,unattended,ignored,solitary,carryingthedeadbodyofDabney,thesilentoldmanofwhomnothingwasknownbuthisname,whomadenofriends,whomnobodykneworspoketo,whohadcomefromnooneknewwhenceandwhowentnooneknewwhither.
Towardsmidnightofthatsameday,Mrs.Dykewasawakenedbythesoundsofgroaningintheroomnexttohers.MagnusDerrickwasnotsooccupiedbyHarran’sdeaththathecouldnotthinkofotherswhowereindistress,andwhenhehadheardthatMrs.DykeandSidney,likeHilma,hadbeenturnedoutofQuienSabe,hehadthrownopenLosMuertostothem.
“Though,”hewarnedthem,“itisprecarioushospitalityatthebest.”
Untillate,Mrs.
