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"We have every reason to believe, as you well know, Inspector Dickson," said the Commissioner, "that there is a secret and wide-spread propagandum being carried on among our Indians, especially among the Piegans, Bloods, and Blackfeet, with the purpose of organizing rebellion in connection with the half-breed discontent in the territories to the east of us.
In the evening his voyagers were entertained with a dance in which the Canadians exhibited some grace and much agility; and they contrived to infuse some portion of their activity and spirits into the steps of their female companions. The half-breed women are passionately fond of this amusement but a stranger would imagine the contrary on witnessing their apparent want of animation.
The half-breed promptly dictated, and the other wrote. The compulsion was exasperating, and the great man scrawled with all the pettishness of a child. The message read "Retief is here. I am a prisoner. Follow up with all speed." "Now sign," said the Breed, when the message was written. Lablache signed and flung down the pen. "What's that for?" he demanded huskily. "For?" His captor shrugged.
And yet he was not entirely Italian. So certain was I that I asked the mate, who answered morosely: "Him? Shorty? He's a dago half-breed. The other half's Jap or Malay." One old man, who I learned was a bosun, was so decrepit that I thought he had been recently injured.
The next morning the tail of the storm was still sweeping bitterly over the edge of the Barren, but Philip set out, with Pierre Breault as his guide, for the place where the half-breed had seen Bram Johnson and his wolves in camp.
Two half-breed trappers, semi-outlaws from the Northern Peninsula, in search of fresh hunting-grounds, had come upon this rich region of ponds and dams. The Saving of Boy's Pond
Then she fell to wondering if anyone had ever given him a real Christmas present; if he had any friends at all; if life meant anything more to him than carrying the law of the land across his saddle. Again he suddenly came to her in a new thought, free from apprehension, and as the champion of her cause to defeat the half-breed and his gang, and save Aleck from present danger or future perils.
This is the life that I understand, Savage and simple, and sane and whole." Friday the Eleventh Dinky-dunk came home with an Indian girl to-day, a young half-breed about sixteen years old. She's to be both companion and parlor-maid, for Dinky-Dunk has to hurry off to British Columbia, to try to sell his timber-rights there to meet his land payments. He's off to-morrow.
Among their adventures was the rescue of little Patty Graham, child of a rich broker who was camping in the woods, from the half-breed LeBlanc. As a reward for their brave deed, Mr. Graham presented them with a specially made wireless telephone outfit, complete with home station and compact carrying 'phones. Now that we know who our heroes are, let us hear what the Customs Chief has to tell them.
After seven days' journey he struck the carcasses left in the line of the Indians' march, and soon came up with their camp, which he entered with appropriate ceremony, followed by his retinue half-breed interpreter, Delaware trailers, French horse-herders, and two real Yellow-Eyed men white Rocky Mountain trappers. He sought the head chief, and they all gathered in the council tepee.
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