They wuz warming them selfs by the pot belly stove we had just got in. “M-may we come in?” Missus Brown wuz the last varmint on the face of the earth that I never wanted to see but I wuz too confounded to do anything but open the door the rest of the way an’ let them pass. That’s when I heard the woman say somethin’ in Spanish an’ I knowed it wuz the ghost woman an’ my time had come even if I wuzn’t no Mexican. Still, I wuz right sorry to lose that stallion an’ that Mexican saddle. I kissed an’ hugged both of them. That’s why we wuz still thinkin bout it when you showed. I asked that the goldsmith cast several gold weddin’ bands. Her dead husband’s name wuz Wally. Well, we buried Ma an’ Pa an’ then we all had our cries. Faith an’ Hope sat quiet like an’ jest watched. It wuz still unclaimed land all around us so I’d go ahead an’ claim it.
