Apache Page #6

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whether it was large or small.

Why do you look at me?

I could feel. lt was like

when you aimed the gun at my back.

You talk like a child.

There is no gun in my hands now.

There is a gun in Massai's mind.

Why did you warn me about the soldiers?

- Why did you warn me?!

- Massai must know.

Where are you going?

Will you be gone long?

Massai does not have to answer.

I know what is in his mind.

This time he will not come back at all.

- What are you doing?

- I am going with you.

No!

Do you want to die? You cannot

keep up with me and i will not feed you.

Go back to the reservation. Go anywhere!

i will not have you with me.

Massai.

Massai.

Why did you follow me?

I'm only a woman.

Made for bearing children,

cooking, sewing.

If i lost you, i was nothing.

- But you could have found another man.

- There is no other Massai.

You know why i had to leave you?

I could not bring myself to kill you...

and there was no place

in Massai's life for love.

Love is for men who can walk

without looking behind.

For men who can live

summer and winter in the same place.

Every white man, every lndian,

is my enemy.

I cannot kill them all,

and someday they will kill me.

Then we will live until someday.

Nalinle's.

So she up and married him

behind your back.

Too bad, Hondo.

Might at least have

invited you to the weddin.

She'll be a widow soon.

Don't bet on it. He wouldn't stay within

I'll give a cigar to anybody

who finds a track.

What is this?

It's nothing. A young girl's foolishness.

It's like the Cherokee corn.

I kept it. A littlle of it.

To me it was a part of Massai.

A young girl believes

what she wants to believe.

Maybe it's just as well.

You're very silent.

There are times when words

come hard to a woman.

Not often.

Will you still smile if l tell you

there will be another Massai?

A littlle one.

I would smile even if it were a girl.

Stay down.

Only a hunter, shooting a deer.

Pack everything you can carry.

Is it the hunter you fear?

Not this hunter, but there will be others.

We must think now of the littlle Massai.

The mountains to the west,

we could go there.

They are high, with much snow.

I know what you're thinking. You want

to send me back to the reservation.

It is the only wise thing.

You have seen them on the reservation.

Do you want your son to grow up

to be another Santos?

We will go - the mountains to the west.

Massai did well.

Now there'll be something

besides water in the stew.

One rabbit in a week.

I saw a deer, but it was

too far for the bow.

Next time i take the rifle.

- But if the shot is heard...

- It's bettler than starving.

Once you could fire a gun without fear,

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