It means she's decided to live a little longer. The remaining Indians were discouraged. However, the next day he passed the word that everyone would be paid half wages in Ogallala. A man whose wife had left was apt to be sore about it and touchy.
When she looked up again she saw that Clara had stepped back a bit and was looking at Gus, her face shining with happiness. To her eye he was the spitting image of Captain Call, built the same way, and with the same movements. He pulled his knife and stood over Dog Face threateningly. I'm bleeding, Dan, he said.
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