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236 ~ . LAUGHING Boy ‘Then I got myself calmer. I could not kz== LL 3 her. I made up my mind toit. I accepted it. BuxI § still loved her. I still do. I still remember tmz {i happiness. ‘That is very bad, it is beastly. My heart mus be bad. I am frightened. Perhaps I should == {& myself. Why not? ‘I came here to see you. I did not want to z= home to all my people. Perhaps you can help == § ] That is all.’ Laughing Boy stared into the ground. He wz shocked, and his heart was wrung. He had neve | imagined that such a thing could happen; had = § ] been told him of some unknown man, he wou: =o have supposed there was something bad abc: him to start with. It was such a disaster as z= angry god might send, as though one heard = | some legend, ‘He went mad and fell in love with = woman of his own clan.” But his friend was goo all good. He knew what he was suffering. Her= membered his feelings those first days at th= dance. He thought hard. They must have sat for | half an hour there before he spoke. ‘Do not kill yourself. And do not feel ashame: do not think you have sinned, or your heart i 1 bad. No, you have shown it is good, I think. I: §& would be bad if you kept on wanting to marry her. but what has happened to you is not somethicg EE EE aT] {Fy or {7 «st

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