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LY 44 LAUGHING Boy see and speak well of me. If I win, I double my : e money, for doing what I enjoy. If I lose, itis only & what I never had until yesterday.’ And whatever happens, I have won more than all the money and hard goods in the world. He meant what he said. Jesting Squaw’s Son | nodded. There was a shot. The pony jumped. Then I two shots together, from somewhere over to the right. Hastily tethering the animal, they raced to their camp to get their bows. People were running § all about; women gathering around the camp-fires, { packing up bundles, men snatching their weapons i and making towards the noise. Three more shots had been fired, about ten seconds apart. The men did not rush towards the firing as Americans . would; they went rapidly, but keeping a sharp lookout, and ready to take cover. Some one shouted that a Hopi had killed a Navajo; some one else called that it was Americans. Now they heard a burst of quick shooting, both rifles and revolvers, at a greater distance. Topping a slight ridge, the two friends saw the Navajos just ahead, nearly a hundred already, in an irregular, slightly . crescent-shaped line. They came up and pushed to the front. No one was talking. About twenty paces in front, facing the cres- cent, stood Tall Old One, the district headman,

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