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[SES 226 : LAUGHING Boy A A A A A AANA AANA EE walks on the sheer edge of a precipice, the meaz- | ingless fall of a stone over the side momentar’~ #§ stops the heart. She studied him while they a= [J She began to talk with him gravely of the 1: they were to make together, of the happiness thz- f was in store for them. He said to himself, ‘She was bothered wher. . J refused that drink, the way she looked at re id =: afterwards. She is nervous about me. I have doz= I | that, by acting as I have. Now she is trying toteZ i _ me how she really is; she is talking true; I know. | | : have wronged her.’ She saw the last trailing clouds pass from hi. § That evening was perfect, so perfect that, with kis § . doubts banished and the feeling of intimacy upc= Jf him, he almost told her everything he had dor: and thought, but he postponed. It was the last = § | its kind for many days. ; Like an ancient magician who, by saying th= BP forbidden names, evoked genii whom he could nc: | n then drive back, Laughing Boy had given form :- thoughts which were not to be forgotten. Ut:- happily for himself, he was no fool, and of z= i honest habit of thought. There was love in the: o place, and sometimes happiness, but if a religious 2 minded Navajo had entered there, he would hav: felt that the air was empty.