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LAavGgHING Boy 179 B® ill know my grandfather here. You, little sister,’ ae looked at his wife, ‘stay here.’ | They rode away while he advised with his § “iend. Then he explained to Slim Girl, and Bok her silver bridle. After a slow cigarette he | said, B When that shadow reaches that stick will be { =me, I think. Igo.’ Gomulli T'o trading post stood on a flat, bare Boulder of sand and rock, a level space of half a | Zozen acres, rising to the west, falling to the east. {B “here was a corral with sides six feet high, and FE = L-shaped one-story house of stone and adobe i vith a corrugated iron roof. Around it was BW I thing green, nothing varied, just sand and cks, some tin cans, part of a rotted blue shirt. l “here was no relief. In summer the drenching i511 searched out its barren walls; in winter the 1%:nd was bleak around it. It was just something = ped there, a thing made by man, contributing Imcching, in the midst of majestic desolation. Be- ad its level were red-brown cliffs, dull orange Sz-d-rock, yellow sand, leading away to blend into iz <ind of purplish brown with blue clouds of m-untains for background. This did not belong; ix =as crushed and empty. Sesides the ones belonging to his own party, hing Boy noted two other ponies hitched by ao &

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