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140 T- LAUGHING Boy PU UU TTT TIT IITIITIITIITIIISSISLS SOS SSS Pe Ae a a PP NI NIN NIN NIN NS NIN NI NIN NINN NINN NI NIN NINN By Long-haired and hatless, the man’s purz Navajo costume, the heavy look of his jewelry. indicated the Northern country. Laughing Bey called him cousin, and questioned him abou: people and things at T'o Tlakai and all the Gyende district. The eager voice and the olé. familiar names, the home things: she was afraid «i all those people, those words. Life was loneiv here. Perhaps if she were to keep him, she woulz have to give up and move back among his owz kind. She observed to herself that this man, wh: was to bind her to The People, seemed to be | driving her yet farther apart from them. When they were alone for a minute, he saic. ‘Why did you not give me my drink? Why diz you not offer him one?’ ‘That drink is medicine that I know. Yc: must leave it to me. There are things that mus: not be done about it, just like prayer-sticks an sacred cigarettes.” As she spoke, she prepared & stiff dose. ‘That man must not have it or know about it. You must not speak of it unless I sar: you may.’ ‘Good, then, I hear you.” He drained it of. He had missed it. ‘I was afraid you would speak of it before him.” ‘I thought about it. You had some reason, I thought. So I waited.’