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LavcHING Boy 201 = that of the present. Red Man, the wrestler of I Ts¢ Lani, sophisticated and self-willed, was ~oresent at many of those dances. Slim Girl had never given him more than hope, and even that, se felt, more because he served a purpose than | ‘or anything else. She had used him. Now she selonged to this rustic, who had humiliated him, t znd who obviously did not know what it was all |. about. Red Man was too good an Indian to bear E much resentment for the wrestling defeat, but it | served the purpose of preventing him from amus- | og himself by explaining to Laughing Boy just | xhat he knew about his wife. Besides, he | shrewdly suspected, such a recital would be Zangerous in the extreme. So he adopted an attitude of smiling implica- = —ons, of ‘I could an I would,’ that was as effective 33 possible for making trouble. Laughing Boy l —~membered the dancing at Tsé Lani, and he felt | Zisturbed. Watching Red Man, it came upon |. ='m that, remarkable though his wife was, she | as subject to the same general laws as other zeople, and he was fairly sure that he was not the } ist man she had known in love. Many things

scddenly aligned themselves in a new way to

| assume a monstrous form. He became very quiet, . 22d thought hard. Slim Girl saw it immediately, not knowing what