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@s LavcHING Boy 239 shall have perhaps fifty, perhaps sixty hundreds ~ of dollars, in money and silver and horses, I think.’ ‘Ei-yei!’ ‘We shall be very rich. With that to start on, we shall be rich all our lives. We shall have our children then, we shall have a beautiful life. It is aer idea, she thought of it. She takes care of the money, she trades with the Americans. She is re- markable.’ ‘You must be very happy.’ ‘I am.” He meant it, II |. Laughing Boy showed off the town, the irri- zated strip, the railroad to his interested friend. Most delightfully, a passenger train went by; esting Squaw’s Son sat his bolting, bucking horse ~ with his head over his shoulder, his eyes glued on the marvel. His presence changed everything. _aughing Boy led him through the narrow place ¢ ctween the clay bluffs to his adobe house, the corral, the ditches and the hummocks of the sum- zer’s field, the sapling peaches. Jesting Squaw’s Son admired, and a pain ran through him that Zaere was not his own house and fields, and his -wn wife waiting by the fire. Slim Girl came to the door. The autumn nights = were already cold enough for the cooking to be

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