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EEE. 278 x f.AvugHING Boy Se NN OO So ‘I think this was meant to happen. Perhaps i: is right, I think. After all that had happened t- me, perhaps I could not have had children. The Americans spoiled me for a Navajo life, but I shall die a Navajo, now.” She spoke very slowly. with long waits while she lay with closed eyes anc her hands clenched. ‘I have saved my soul through you. I have been very happy with you. This last little while, I found myself, I found truth with you.” She broke into coughing, and then was silent for almost five minutes. ‘I say all this so you shall know that it has not been in vain. You will go on and live and re- member me, you have changed because of me; in you I shall live. ‘T have come home. I shall die at home, I shall be buried like my People. It is hosoji.’ He had no words at all. ‘I love you so much. Kiss me.’ He bent over her, her arm: clutched about his neck, he lifted her shoulders against his chest. Her eyes were closed and she kissed him with cool, closed lips of love, not of passion. She opened her eyes, drew back her head, and smiled at him. Then she said in a clear voice, ‘Nayeinezgani!’ — Slayer of Enemy Gods.’ And so speaking, smiling, died. Then she is dead. Then it is all over. But ERT SHIRE

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