Status Updates From Only Killers and Thieves (B...

They check on Mary but she too has been shot however she is still breathing. They take her to the nearest medic which lives on Sullivans farm and they take Mary and the boys in to rest. They want to stay with her but Sullivan says no.

Arthur leaves the boys to return home while he goes back to his place. Tommy and Billy go to tend to the horses when they see that something is amiss. They check the side of the barn and see both of their dogs murdered so they run to the house. Once they get there they see their father and mother have been killed.

The family is sleeping when they hear a tapping sound and a few of them panic. The father realizes that its raining and everyone goes outside to celebrate. The rain continued for days and Arthur, Tommy, and Billy go to a watering hole to learn to swim and they end up talking about school in the town.

It is said that the mother and father have begun fighting and that Tommy has twice found his mother crying by herself. Arthur left to go live by himself for awhile. Sullivan sent a rider to the McBride family's farm to the father that says, "Im waiting Ned."

The girl Tommy is talking to mentions school and Tommy is curious of how it is. I feel this may foreshadow something later in the book. Father and Author had left apparently and now they have returned with a sheep and some money that they bought.

Tommy considers stealing a bag of flour but the clerk pulls a gun out and Tommy drops it. His mother goes to church and leaves the boys to themselves. Tommy sits in an alley when a girl comes up and starts talking to him.

They head into town where they see a few of the people that the mother once knew. She used to live in the town before she married the father. They go to buy some goods but are refused when the clerk says that they need to pay now and cant use credit.

The family doesn't really think much of the dead hanging people. They head home and after arriving Sullivan pulls up. They talk but it is not stated in the book what they talked about.

The father decides to check on the cattle to see what has happened so far. The boys have to use a sling to pick up the cattle off the ground. Once they finish they hear something and the father goes to see what it was. It turns out to be 2 hanging bodies with the word Noone carved into the wood next to it.