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224 “: LavcHING Boy 1 water refreshed him; he was hungry once mcr § and felt better. 2 What he had thought last night had been true . but unbalanced; and all this about Americans har been just because he felt sick. He had alwa:z : | known Americans, traders and such, they were 27 § right, just people of a different tribe. He stretch=- | out, fed, smoking, surprised at his desire to slesz | again. It would be pleasant, it would be beautif: returning to To Tlakai rich, very rich, with her. and to settle down somewhere near there and have | | children. They needed children. Meantime they | would make their way together. Oh, beautiful. IIT Next morning he felt better. The drunkennes I ] and the emotional outburst had cleared his syster= In pouring out the liquor, he felt that he had d= . stroyed a bad thing; the enemies in his head hz- indeed proved to be nothing but cobwebs, ar: | they were gone. Like the man who burned th: SB tumbleweed when the Eagles were afraid of it, b= thought. He rounded up the three horses he wanted, goo: i ¥ ones. Only the best horses sold this year, ar: | they did not bring so good a price. He rode homs | contented, quiet, and determined to do bette 2 with himself.

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