So Brave, Young, and Handsome: A Novel by Leif Enger

Author:Leif Enger [Enger, Leif]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: Grove/Atlantic, Inc.
Published: 2009-03-31T23:00:00+00:00

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I would love to tell you that Darlys DeFoe turned herself in. That she came down off the roof of Marland Oil across the street, where she had climbed unnoticed when all eyes were on Siringo and the big horse, and that she presented herself to the law and told her tale of misplaced affection. That would be romance! That would be opera! But the fact is she disappeared even more handily than Glendon himself had done. José Barrera said he saw “a tall man wading toward Texas” while the rest of us were transfixed watching Mammoth’s slow return, but who knows? Though a search turned up one fifty-caliber shell casing and a soaked sheepskin on the roof where she had rested her rifle, nothing suggested where Deep Breath Darla might be planning to go next or by what means. So far as I can tell, no one who was then at the Hundred and One ever saw her again.

Which, I suppose, is fairly romantic too.

Meantime Charles Siringo lay against the shire’s neck like wet bedding. There was some debate among the boardinghouse audience whether he was alive or dead on that horse, but I hadn’t any doubt of his living. Laugh all you like at the old perception of the fated existence; Siringo wore it like his own skin. You can’t kill history. You can’t shoot it with a bullet and watch it recede into whatever lies outside of memory. History is tougher than that—if it’s going to die, it has to die on its own.

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