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400 there ain't anythin' a bindin' him, hevin' his name 'n' thet book. It's only so the Agent kin know what Injuns wants help, 'n' where they air. Ain't thet so?” she added, turning to the Agent. ”Tell him he can't hev the Agency doctor, ef he ain't on the Agency books.”

Not have the doctor? Give up this precious medicine which might save his baby's life? No! he could not do that. Majella would say, let the name be written, rather than that.

“Let him write the name, then,” said Alessandro, doggedly; but he went out of the room feeling as if he had put a chain around his neck.