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“That’s all the money I had until

the end of the month,” Johnson

complained. “Now what will I do?”

“He said he’d pay it back,”

Stanton, another missionary, said.

“Yeah, right,” Johnson said.

“Like that’s really going to happen.”

“How much was it?” I asked.

“Five dollars,” Johnson replied.

“Isn’t that what we’re doing out

here anyway?” I asked. “I mean, if

he needed it, wouldn’t you have

given it to him?”

“I suppose,” he replied. “But I

don’t like the idea of someone just

stealing it.”