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 They sat by the fire for a while, silent as a pair of drovers camping out on the western prairie.

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Chick and Darby are bonding, King of the Hill style. Lindsay probably thought they'd bicker and insult each other all night. But they're going to form a fucking union and Lindsay's head is going to explode.

"fire"
A signifier of warmth, probably used to show the two are growing closer together.

"pair of drovers"
They're people who drive! But they drive cattle and not cars. And not in the way you drive cars. You can't get inside a cow. Comparing them together to another career shows that they're not so dissimilar, and they share a need to work together.

"western prairie"
Probably like Kansas or Nebraska. One of those states that seem flat if you travel east/west but is more like a rumpled carpet if you travel north/south.

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 Randolph emerged from his tent in mufti, every bit as spruce as his liberty section, for he, too, was bound for earthly chores, his Chums of Chance flight uniform having been replaced by a tastefully checked Kentucky hemp suit and Ascot tie, with a snappy fedora topping off the ensemble.

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I learned the term "mufti" from a comic book but I can't remember which comic book. Probably something by Tom King. It just means civilian clothes rather than the uniforms Randolph usually wears in his duty as the captain of the Inconvenience.

I don't know what a "Kentucky hemp suit" is so I'll just assume it's a suit made out of hemp purchased in Kentucky. It's a good assumption because it looks like, around the time, Kentucky was the largest producer of hemp.

This is probably what Randolph looked like here. But with a more, um, "ascotier" tie!