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wa 272 toe LAUGHING Bov fastnesses towards Tsé Nanaazh and the Pah- Utes. That would be better than dealing with his relatives at T'o Tlakai, and it was near enough for visiting. ‘And we shall see that our children never go to school.” She echoed that, and she longed for them — his children. But the thought gave her pause. Now that she was thinking as true as she knew how, for her salvation, she wondered if she stil! could have a child. She was young, but she had been through a lot. After that one terrible time. instructed by the prostitutes of Ofiate, she had never put herself in danger of it — or had she? She cast back carefully in her mind; she was not sure. It was possible that she could, possible that she could not. The thing stared her in the face like a risen corpse. Then what could she do? Have him take an- other wife, who would bear them to him. Then in the end he would love that other. He would not, of himself, ever want her to go away, but that other would scheme against her, the mother of his children. What would there be in the world for her, a barren Indian, having lost Laughing Boy? An unlocked door in a street by the railroad track, or death. Only death. There must be children. After all, she was only frightening herself with a chance. When she was

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