They all knew better. Who would best keep things going? Soupy was excellent when set a task, but had no initiative and was unused to planning. Anyway, if Newt had wanted to question the Captain about it, he would have had a hard time catching him. His mother had died when he was six, yet he could remember that she always ate with the family; she would never have sat with her legs dangling practically over her husband's head.
But he couldn't shoot her and he couldn't leave her; the Captain wouldn't approve of either action. This is Miss Wood, Augustus said, and I'm Captain McCrae. Roscoe did watch. They hated the smell of hides as much as she did.
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