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“And before we go,” Chee added, “there’s something I want to give to you.”
Chee got off the bed and unsnapped the suitcase. He took out the hotel laundry sack in which he’d wrapped it and extracted the fetish.
He handed it to her. “The Tano War God,” he said. “One of the twins.”
Janet Pete stared at it, and then at Chee. She made no move to accept it.
“I didn’t think he should be so far away from home,” Chee said. “He has a twin somewhere, and people who miss him. It seemed to me that the Smithsonian has plenty of other gods, stolen from other people, and they could keep the replica Highhawk made and get along without this one. I thought this one should go back to its kiva, or wherever the Tanos keep him.”
“You want to give it to me?” Janet asked, still studying his face.
“That way he will get home,” Chee said. “You can turn him over to John McDermott, and John gives him to what’s-his-name—Eldon Tamana, wasn’t it? That lawyer from Tano. And Tamana, he takes it home.”
Janet Pete said nothing. She looked down at her hands, and then up at him again.
“Or,” Chee added softly, “whatever you like.”
Janet held out her hands. Chee laid the Twin War God in them.
“I guess we should go now,” Chee said, and he relocked the suitcase. “I think I’ve been in this town long enough for a country boy Navajo.”
Janet Pete was rewrapping the Twin War God in the laundry sack. “Me too,” she said. “I have been here for months and months and months.
So long it seems like a lifetime.“ She put her hand on Chee’s sleeve.
“I will take this little fellow home myself,” she said.
TONY HILLERMAN is past president of the Mystery Writers of America and has received their Edgar and Grand Master Awards. Among his other honors are the Center for the American Indian's Ambassador Award, the Silver Spur Award for best novel set in the West, and the Navajo Tribe's Special Friend Award. His many bestselling novels include Finding Moon, Sacred Clowns, Coyote Waits, Talking God, A Thief of Time, and Dance Hall of the Dead. He lives with his wife, Marie, in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
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