I played spin the bottle, Lorena said, remembering that she had played it with her brother, who had been sickly and had stayed in Alabama with her grandmother. If he lost them he could usually pick them up within half a mile. Them'll be our fifty-dollar gold pieces, he said. It's only a matter of time before he kills one of us.
More Latin, I guess, Augustus said. He was with a gang of murderers. Clara looked out at them occasionally from the upper windows--there seemed no harm in the man. He just stood there waiting.
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