Bill Spettle had been so stiffened when they found him that they had not been able to straighten him out properly--they had just wrapped him in a bedroll and stuck him in a hole. She tried, but no words came out. He took the board and carried it down to the grave. Back to town, Augustus said.
That night he worried about what the man might think--another man coming in with his wife. July and Cholo were both working the lots and would no doubt notice them too. It's a nervous disease, he said. A snake must have crawled near him in the night, and in his thrashing he had turned over and scared it.
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