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"Told her what?"
"Nothing!" He bellowed loudly.
"How you gonna find her son, she's been gone for nearly a week." He told him.
"I'll take one of the wolves and track her."
Jack stood up and eyed him closely, "I got one question for ya, then I'll shut up."
"What?" Moon frowned.
"Are you in love with that gal?" Jack studied him.
"That has nothing to do with this." He turned away.
"It has everything to do with it." Jack insisted.
"What do you mean?" Moon frowned once more as he stared at Jack.
"Why do you think she run off?"
"Like she said… "
"No, that ain't the reason boy. She's in love with you, and you been shunning her for a while now. And I gotta admit I'm bit curious as to why. Because the way you are acting right now, I won't believe you don't care about her."
"I had to stay away from her. I couldn't see how it could work for us, Jack. You know that! At least not the way we were going about it. But what Corky said made perfect sense. It was as though God himself were laying out the plans for us. Now I have an answer, and she's gone!"
"All I know is, if you don't love her, you better not go after her. Because if you don't, there's no reason to, she's right. They won't come looking for you, without her here. But I'm just as concerned for her as you, because I can admit I love her."
"Alright, I love her too! I have for a while now. But it seemed so hopeless. Now, I have a plan that I know will work and her being gone might even help this plan."
"I don't understand."
"It won't work her being a man all her life. But if she was my half breed squaw it would work."
Jack stared and thought a moment. "That's a Jim Dandy idea son. But there is one thing, are you going to marry her?"
"If she'll have me, yes!" He smiled. "It won't work any other way."
"Then it will work, and I couldn't be happier about it. I don't know why I didn't think of that. Corky as much as said so when he came last time. Said you'd go off to the reservation, get yourself a squaw and come back and Lester would have to leave. It's perfect! You've got to find her now. Take Cole, he's the best sniffer." Jack chuckled. "This place ain't the same without her."
"I knew you loved her too, Jack." Moon smiled.
"I wasn't sure you'd ever find a woman, but I'm glad you did son, and I'm even happier it is her." Jack told him.
"I'll start out in the morning. I'll get a good night's sleep, a belly full of your good cooking and then me and Cole will go get her."
"That pup could sniff her out in a rainstorm." Jack chuckled.
"Are you sure how she feels about me?" Moon asked.
"That's the real reason she's been so unhappy here, son. She said you had changed, and she thought it was because of the man clothes and that you'd had time to think it over."
"Oh, I thought it over, and over and over. I thought it impossible, Jack. But it's not! After praying on it in the holy place and going hunting, I was sitting there around the fire, and suddenly it hit me. You told me what Corky said, and then I just put it all together. It will work, I know it will."
"Well, there is one thing I want you to do."
"What's that?" Moon asked curiously.
