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LavcHING Boy 101 ae pleased him, and it was a pleasure to hear her t mc. Hewasonly sorry for her, that she had for so | ec been denied these things, and angry and | 3x2zled at the schools and the American life that | XC forbidden them. In the end, he taught her | mrs that she had no business knowing, quite | aw=re of what he did, as a kind of unavowed | Txate and token of the special quality he felt in | II | After the steam bath and the water and the | &m=ming yucca-suds, it was good to lie with hair | mr=ad out, drying, and talk vaguely of things to | 2x Zone, and now and again to touch her. Great | a—cvements completed themselves in a phrase. | Fe drew the design of a bracelet in the sand; he ! Br=ided his hair and mimicked the nasal speech of aT. Theyfell to talking of the ways of different | tes, the old wars, and the present semi-hostility | Be-een the Navajo and the Pah-Utes. | Theres not often trouble with them,’ he told {B= ‘but we do not like them, They live wild up im that country beyond Oljeto, where they are mr to catch, and they steal things. Mostly they mc ble the Mormons; the Mormons are afraid of ie, they say. Since I was a little boy, only once Dw had real trouble with them. Then one time we om ¥ io i is baa a hE ed Fir al 5 Rt Aa A bg ALR ob at

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