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LauvucHiNG Boy 203 vou are doing so much that you are willing to nght about it, go on. If not, stop it. I say, not just do less of it, or do it differently, but stop it | entirely. That is what I mean. I have spoken.’ Red Man studied him; he was plainly in deadly | carnest. He might just as well have acted instead of spoken — those men from up there have not | vet realized the power of police and law. Among | Navajos, the reasonable and acceptable way to have done, had he acted, would have been from . :mbush. Red Man felt he had had a narrow sscape. He emphatically did not like what he | was doing that much. Time would inevitably | tring sorrow to the fellow. ‘I hear you, Grandfather.’ II These occasional absences of from three days 23 over a week made complications in Slim Girl's ~ zrrangements with her American. His trips in to | own from his ranch were made on business that ~ ®as, as often as not, conjured up to excuse him- | =!f to himself for seeing her. Each rendezvous 1 would be arranged the time before, or by a note

=itin the little house, which she was supposed to

| wisit at fixed intervals. Now it was occurring, t == never before, that he would demand her | zresence on a certain date, only to be told it was