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LavgHinGg Boy 143 | s mething, but always turning to look at her, | imost shyly. She relaxed, relieved of her fear. I am a fool. Iam a crazy damned fool. I am the centre of all ~ zzat he is thinking. He is all tied up in me. He ~ =zres for this and that, but I am the door through | whichitall comes. Listen to the way he is talking, | s=2 how he looks. We can go to a thousand dances _ id he will still be mine. Not all The People in | -e world can take him away. If he is ever lost to | —¢. it will be I who have lost him. She moved over and leant against him, her head | 2 his shoulder. “I think your country will be —:ry beautiful. I shall be glad to see it. Your -cople will not like me, I think, but I do not care, i © we are together.’ II | Slim Girl's idea of travel on horseback was that == should ride during the cooler part of the I = srning, rest out the noon downpour of light and | -:=at in a shady place, and use the last of the day . -- nd the nearest friendly hogahn. There could ¢ -= none of that now, she knew. Her man was a . N:vajo and a horseman; when he settled in the | s::dle, as the sides of his calves touched his zeony's barrel, and he felt the one current run | —-ough them, there was always that little look of

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