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LavgHiNnGg Boy 147 dried meat. After supper they sat in silence, smoking and looking into the coals. She thought that silence was inimical. At last he said; ‘I shall set a trap back there by those rocks; we should have a prairie-dog for breakfast. They are good. I know you do not Ware for this food we just had. You are used to etter.’ ‘I do not mind. You must not think about me.’ ‘I wish you had brought some of that whiskey. WB Since you have taught me that, everything is flat Iwithout it. There is no salt in things. I missed it Last night, and I do now.’ | ‘I brought some. I did not know you wanted it. | Sere is about enough for two drinks. You will lxave to take it just plain.’ | ‘That is all right. Give me some, then.’ He drank his dose eagerly. ‘There will be none of that at T’o Tlakai,’ she mid him. | ‘That is all right. It does not belong there; it is zt of the new world you have made for me. Ido mc: think I could go back to just living, like these mcr people.’ | She thought to herself, that is well enough, me we are alone. You will lose the need for the lar— I in the time we are there, perhaps you will zzt about it.

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