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242 ‘LaAugHING Boy A A SS SOS ISS SN OOS T OO oy the soldiers. That would lead to old wars with t=: Utes and the Jicarillas and the Stone Hous: people, and they argued whether they gained ¢- lost under the present enforced peace. Laugt.- ing Boy and Slim Girl enjoyed themselves enc-- mously. It was cold enough for a blanket over th: shoulder, the day that Jesting Squaw’s Son an< Laughing Boy rode out to the pasture and caugh- his horse. Laughing Boy was sad at his friends departure. They mounted their animals and clasped hands. ‘I shall wait for you in the North.’ ‘We shall come, but I hope you will visit us here again.’ ‘I hope you will come too soon for that. I have lived in your house, I have seen you. You are both happy, I think; you are both in love. But you are afraid. All the time you are enjoying yourselves you are watching for something over your shoulders, I think. I do not understand this. It is what I saw. This life of yours, it all looks like The People’s life; only her going into town is strange. But it is not just she, it is you both that are not living like us, I think. I do not know what it is, but you are wearing moccasins that do not fit you. The sooner you both come back to your own people, the better, I think.

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