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Bowers fired his evening salute before retiring as a hint to the coyotes, and, sometimes, when the wind veered, a far-off tinkle as a bell-sheep stirred on the bed-ground came to Kate's ears all were familiar sounds, so familiar that she heard them only subconsciously.
There would be growls and snarls, and perhaps threats, but the trouble would end there. Gerani, Colowski, Raffelo, Sickerenza, were the bell-sheep. He could control them. Pushing his way to the front of the saloon, he stood in the doorway and shouted with the full force of his lungs. He spoke Slavic, and they listened. There were mutterings and growls as might have been expected.
He was the bell-sheep for all the foreign herd. In return for their allegiance, he bailed them out of jail when necessary.
I was just as scared as she was, too, but all you got to do with women is to get a few good-lookin' bell-sheep to lead and the others will follow fast." She regarded him in the wan moonlight. "If there's anything I admire," she said, "it's a smart man." "Oh, I don't know," he said. "I've just got a little better judgment than the next fellow. Those things come natural, that's all.
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