“Let’s get off the damn Brazos tomorrow,” Gus suggested. “Why?” Call asked. “There’s always abundant water in the Brazos.” “I know it—that’s why,” Augustus said. “Where there’s water, there’s farmers—or people who were trying to be farmers. It means more people to bury. Me, I’d like to get on home.” “It’s wrong to leave Christian folk unburied,” Call told him. “It ain’t if we don’t even see ’em,” Gus said. “If we get away from all this watered country we won’t happen on so many.”
