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LavgHiNnG Boy aad an American from the agency in army hat, riding-breeches, and leather leggins. The Ameri- =an had a rifle and a revolver. Behind these two, = open order, stood Man Hammer and Left Zand, policemen, and a Hopi and a Tewa police- =an, all with rifles. The latter two wore parts of zaaki uniforms. Over to one side a Navajo leant zzainst a tree, looking sick. Blood ran down his seve and dripped from his fingers; at his feet lay 3 revolver. Farther back another policeman, Mud’s Son, stood guard over a handcuffed Nav- 2:2. and, partly hidden by a clump of bushes, scmebody was stretched out on the ground. The American official and the Hopi were acutely =ascious of the fact that several hundred Nav- 22s were thinking that these aliens had started sa:=ething, and if only the native officials would =:p aside it might as well be finished now. They 20 knew that those same officials were aware of =: feeling, and sympathized with it. There were 2 ouple of dozen rifles and revolvers in the Ey ==wd, and at that range a bow is just as effective. - z= Indians were all looking at the wounded man; 2e made an ugly exhibit. The Tewa policeman shifted from foot to foot a grinned. The situation might become serious, 2c he thought it would work out all right, and he Z=voutly hoped for an arrest involving a fist-fight