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CHAPTER XII I | DURING the greetings, Laughing Boy took stock. With entire confidence in his wife's ability to win | aver these people, he carried himself as though he | ~ad no faintest idea that there might be strained | lations between them, but in his mind he was | -alling the roll of his family. Wounded Face, | string apart in his blanket like a sleepy eagle, was 1zainst him. Spotted Horse, the younger uncle, _¥as waiting; meantime he intended to be cordial. | Sootted Horse would follow somebody's lead, whoever spoke most commandingly; afterwards, | = the issue were unpleasant, he would mildly de- | -'ore it. His mother was against him, but she too | xaited, not declaring herself, not closing her judg- —ont yet. His sisters took no position, but wel- I -omed the stranger and did their best to make her | :- home because she was his wife. Bow’'s Son, his -sther, and Bay Horse, his brother-in-law, both | =dently thought he had made a fool of himself, | 2-4 felt hostile towards her. Bay Horse could be | ~=~ounted; he did not belong to the clan, and the i ==H00 which forbids a man’s looking upon his mother-in-law kept him away from the family {c-cle most of the time.

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