Posted by Vickie on July 06, 2000 at 17:43:10:
In Reply to: Building a Town posted by Vickie on July 05, 2000 at 21:35:02:
I like so much of what Cain says, like in Chapter 3: "There is a determination, there is the will to survive, the will to endure. We have that, and few as we are, and no matter what trials we must endure, when spring comes we will be here to greet it."
And yet, after a bloody fight in Chapter 4, Cain comes out to see and with "an odd expression in his eyes...'We could have warned them off,'...There needn't have been a fight." And Bendigo replies, "Better to get it over with, Cain. They would have come back, and next time we might not have been ready."
One of the outlaws was still alive, and Webb, the ever mysterious, hints that he will "go with the others." Sampson had gone to get the bandages and as he came close "the man was dead, stiffening in a pool of his own blood." Webb had lived a lot.
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