Princess Soup-Bone
The fact that Davis and Luca were putting their pans and shovels away indicated, for all intents and purposes, that they believed the old girl would not be found that morning.
Johnny had been out on the hunt for over two hours, so the two men made the most of their time. They packed camp because they knew Johnny would cry and howl if they weren’t ready to join in as soon as he returned. As much as both of them wanted to stay and continue working their claim, Johnny would make such a proposition intolerable. He’d be a sobbing handful without Princess Soup-Bone in tow.
“He’s too superstitious, no? She was just another mouth to feed. We would have done okay without her.”
Davis sensed Luca ending the last sentence as if it were a question.
“Maybe,” Davis said. He wasn’t
