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LAavucHING Boy thought from turning to frantic revolt. Prayer helped him. - He got himself in hand and rolled a cigarette. Now I must choose between her and myself. If I stay with her, I lose myself, really. I am a man. Iam a warrior. If I do not give her up, I become something else from what I have always been. The world changes, the good things, the bad things, all change for me. And they change for the bad. I cannot shoot her again. I cannot do that thing. If I leave her, Iamstill I, but I and the world are dead. Oh, my friend, my friend, your choice was so simple, you were lucky. The arrow only grazed you; it has gone through my bowels. And when it came my turn to send the arrow back, I missed. Oh, well named, Came With War, Came With War, oh, beautiful! Why do they give women names about war? I know all about that now. My uncle was right. I cannot go now and see their faces. Kill myself. That would settle it. But not now, not in this place. If it keeps on being like this, I shall do that, in my own country. Came With War, Came With War, Slim Girl, you coy- ote, you devil, you bad woman. I must go away. I cannot stay with her. She is worth everything in the world, but there is something in me that have no right to trade for her. That is what I must do.

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