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After the holidays he left once more for Petersburg. He went in the morning and after dinner my sister came to see me. Without taking off her furs, she sat silent, very pale, staring in front of her. She began to shiver and seemed to be fighting against some illness. "You must have caught a cold," I said. Her eyes filled with tears.
There are complications; she is in debt, and the proprietor of Hawtrey's has threatened to discharge her and in order that the magnitude of the temptation may be most effectively realized the vision appears of Leila herself, wrapped in furs, stepping out of a limousine and into an elevator lifting her to an apartment containing silk curtains, a Canet bed, a French maid, and a Pomeranian.
We provided ourselves also with six or eight puds of Circassian leaf tobacco to be used instead of money; divided equally our little store of beads, pipes, knives, and trading-goods, purchased new suits of furs throughout, and made every preparation for three or four months of camp life in an arctic climate.
"The world was full of things I couldn't understand, but I could understand a little better the woman who wore the white furs. "Oh Katie, you get so tired you get so dead all day long putting suspenders in a box or making daisies or addressing envelopes or trying to remember whether it was apple or custard pie
How it was sold, I have not yet discovered, though I do not believe the prince guilty of violating the laws. But I know the Government has its secret agents at work upon the case because of the seeming luxury of the princess, whose new furs and automobile are known to be far beyond her present income.
Owen put his kettle to boil, and sat down also to enjoy society; for why should man be hurried? He learned how many fights had been fought that day; how many bales of furs were packed in the Company's yard; that Étienne St. Martin was trying to ship with the Northern instead of the Illinois Brigade, on account of a grudge against Charle' Charette.
The room was rather cold, but of that the waiter gave a reasonable explanation in the fact that the fire had not been burning long. Furs however might be dispensed with, or Fleda thought so; and taking off her bonnet she endeavoured to rest her weary head against the sharp-cut top of the sofa-back, which seemed contrived expressly to punish and forbid all attempts at ease-seeking.
"Every man must chop his own trail. I won't say but what you're right. But what are you going to do? A man can't live and die alone." "I don't know," said Ambrose. "Tell you what," said Peter; "you take the furs out on the steamboat." "I won't," said Ambrose quickly. "I went out last year. It's your turn." "But I'm contented here," said Peter. Ambrose shook his head.
When he did swing it back such a cloud of snow entered that it seemed as if some one had emptied a feather bed in the cabin. "She don't want to come in," Bill reported when, after much exertion, he had made his way back again. "She is laughing at this storm, and says it's like what they have where she came from. She is braced against the cabin, and is wrapped up in furs. I guess she is all right."
Obviously, this must be so, for the whole country is trapped over every year, all the furs are marketed, most of them through the Hudson's Bay Company, and whatever falls into other hands is about the same percentage each year, therefore the H. B. Co. returns are an accurate gauge of the relative rise and fall of the population.
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