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70 ~- LaveHIiNG Bov PS I PAPO EN SSNS SOON SYST stood with his hand on his saddle, staring at the stirrup. ‘Well, we can only wait. Do not speak of | it, my friend.’ : ‘I hear you.’ He mounted swiftly, and rode off at a trot. ITI It grew hot when the sun was halfway up. § Laughing Boy's last sleep seemed years age. i From time to time he looked at her as one migh: | drink at a spring, and her occasional speech was. like rain falling. She rode in triumph. Abruptly he stopped, gazing first at the trail then over to the right, while with a hand on the bridle he stopped her horse. He said in a sure! voice, ‘Get off your horse.’ She did not quite know why she obeyed sa immediately. He took off saddle and bridle, tie® a thong about the animal's lower jaw, then stocd for an instant, one hand on the withers, head raised high. She saw his lips moving, and wes afraid of his intent face and a hard, excited loc about his mouth. With a quick gesture he strung his bow, and before she could speak to him mounted and was off, galloping. There was noth ing for it but to wonder and wait. She knew by the sun that he had not been gon over half an hour, but it seemed more than she

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