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LavgHiNnGg Boy 263 wake up in the house of a bad woman. I handed him his money, two hundred dollars, and told 0 him to count it, that it was all there. Then I || gave him coffee, and a little whiskey, and then food. He asked how much I wanted. I said I was not doing this for money. Then I gave him a little more whiskey, and so I kept him all day. I did not let him get drunk, and I acted like a good | woman who called him friend. ‘The next morning he said he had to get back 4 to work. He said he would see me when he came & back to town, and he wished I was not what I was. He was lonely, that man. These were not | his people, these Americans here; they did not § talk the same. Like a Navajo living among | Apaches.’ Her voice was taking on a timbre of triumph. ‘I said, “ You will not find me here.” ‘He said, “At Kien Doghaiyoi, then.” o ‘““No,” I said, “I am through with all that. I B only did it because I had to. I hated it.” ‘He asked how that happened. I told him J bout half the truth and half lics, to make it sound better, saying I had been bad only a few weeks. Now I said an old Navajo whom I had always known was come for me; I did not love B® him, but he was a good man, and I was going to marry him. But first I wanted to see him — the