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LAavugHING Boy 115 Zarvey agent, finding him a ready buyer at good

aces. She liked to think, then, of the many

maces along the railroad in which strangers were | z= ving for her husband's work. She had learned not to care much for general

=zzion of herself, and was surprised to find that

=x tangible evidence of her mythical husband's =cstence, this visible means of support, made a mezsant difference in the trader's attitude to- w3~ds her, and eventually in the looks she re- | ==d from men throughout the town. There was a surprised feeling that she must have been telling == truth about herself, and a grateful decrease in | =—:=mpts to scrape unwelcome acquaintance with =. As for George Hartshorn, her American, he z==loped an increased jealousy that she knew = 10 use. T > complete her idyll, she wanted to weave, | mc che found it harder than she had expected. nad been taken to school young, before she | mc “ecome skilled, and now it was almost all for- . zr=n. Laughing Boy even had to teach her the | ===: of her tools. She wondered, as he watched == suggling with the stubborn warp, if he were m= ong at her inside himself, if she seemed =-=ious to him. Many times she would have | z= up had it not been for her natural deter- mc:=:n of character, and for knowing how i

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