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you shouldn't have done. But you have been my servant for how long?”

“Thirty years,” Slow John said.

“Thirty years, a long time,” said Dr. Wilson, nodding. “I am only surprised that, in those thirty years, you
did not tell me this thing.”
The Indian said, “It was not mine to tell.”

“Why?”

The Indian said, “I am a Su.”

“Su.” Dr. Wilson frowned, seemed to be digging around in his memory. “You have only said that once
before. Thirty years ago.”

Slow John nodded, but did not elaborate.

“You're an unusual fellow, Slow John,” Dr. Wilson said. “Unusual even for an American Indian, who are
a remarkable people as a class.”

Slow John was silent.

Dr. Wilson went over and put a hand on his shoulder. There was a great deal of affection in the gesture.

“Not many human beings would have insisted on paying a debt of gratitude as you have paid this one,” he
said.

Slow John said, “I do right as I see right.”

“Yes, but it's still unusual. It was thirty years ago, almost thirty years ago to this month, that I found your
family in the Everglades and was able to do them a service.

But you didn't owe me anything, and I know that you are sure I mean that. And yet you insisted on being
my servant for thirty years.”

Slow John grunted.

“Life,” he corrected. “I am your servant until one of us shall die.”

Dr. Wilson nodded, as a man who understood all that. “But why?” he asked.

“It was ordered.”

Dr. Wilson looked startled. “You were ordered to do that?”

“Yes?”

“By whom?”

“The Su. “