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All men were gazing at the mounting masses that rolled into the heavens and blossomed bodefully over the wooded hills. Fat clouds of the smoke hung high and motionless. From the earth went up to them whirls and spirals and billowing discharges like smoke from noiseless artillery. A man had climbed upon a window-sill of the hall in order to see more clearly.
But the factor of Fort de Seviere had risen in his place, his face gone blank with consternation. "From Montreal!" he cried, "but did you not answer to me as friends and of the Company?" "Aye," answered De Courtenay, also rising, the gaiety fading from his face and his eyes beginning to sparkle bodefully, "of the North-west Company, trading from Montreal into the fur country.
Weary shaded his eyes with his hat-brim, against the slant rays of the westering sun. "That's Oleson, Dunk's partner." "His mother'd be a-weepin'," Big Medicine observed bodefully, "if she knowed what was due to happen to her son right away quick. Must be him that done the shootin'."
I not do de harrm wis you. I not got de mooney wort' all dees troubles what you makes. Dees horse, she lak for keel me also. She buck, en keeck, en roon mon Dieu, I not like dees t'ing." "Sober, by thunder!" ejaculated Weary in an ecstatic half-whisper. "Dock, you've got a chance to make a record for yourself to-night if we ain't too late," he added bodefully. "Do yuh know where we're headed for?"
'N' another thing," he added bodefully, "I figgured we'd better be gittin' to Luck In' his bunch. I calc'late they need us, mebby." No one made any reply to that statement, but even Lite, who never had been inclined to laugh at him, looked at Applehead with a new respect.
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