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' ' Coyotes tore it down p e r - 

 haps No, no, the thongs were 

 cut with a knife. ' ' She approached 

 shrinkingly. 



' ' Her rings armlets and necklace 

 are gone she has been robbed! 

 The White Devils have done this 

 they have robbed my mother 

 they have despoiled the dead !" 



She felt numb. She could only 

 repeat with wearying monotony, 

 'They killed her they killed her!" 

 After a while the voice in her ears 

 said instead: "They robbed her in 

 life and in death." 



The peculiar odour from the 

 corpse added to her horror. Then 

 something snapped in her brain. 

 She sank in a heap beside her 

 mother, and went floating off into 

 space in a swirling, throbbing 

 darkness. 



It was dawn the next morning 

 when Sharpnose and Whiteleg, herd- 

 ing cattle on the range, passed the 

 Manakes trees and noticed some 

 unusual objects under the south 

 bank of the gully. They rode up to 

 see what they were. 



