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An agreement was also entered into at the same time, that one of our interpreters, Ed Gurrier, a half-breed Cheyenne, who was in the employ of the government, should remain in the village and report every two hours as to whether any Indians were leaving there. This was about seven o'clock in the evening.
Robertson was going back to sit, warm and well-fed, by his stove, but they could not tell what hardships awaited them. Their depression, however, vanished after a while. The snow was good for traveling, the dogs trotted fast, and the half-breed grunted approval of their speed as he pointed to landmarks that proved it when they stopped at noon.
He scarcely knew what explanation he gave to the half-breed, who helped him to put up his tent. But when the latter left to follow his wife into the cabin he said: "She ess seek, ver' seek. An' she grow more seek each day until mon Dieu! my wife, she ess scare!" He cut a few balsam boughs and spread out his blankets, but did not trouble to build a fire.
As a matter of fact, there were many half-breeds there, many of whom, no doubt, were as brave as yourself, but I should have perished in the fans of the mill if I had to depend upon the succour of any one of them." "Mademoiselle," he retorted with a fierce light in his eye, "I am not a half-breed."
She should die, but then some women have no sense." "The other woman!" said Wonta, starting to her feet; "who is the other woman?" Old Foot-in-the-Sun waked and sat up, but seeing that it was Pierre, dropped again to sleep. Pierre, he knew, was no peril to any woman. Besides, Wonta hated the half-breed, as he thought.
He had, however, no opportunity for questioning him, and he waited until the next day, when Emile, whom they were helping, chose a shorter way across a ravine than that taken by the police and the men with the bob-sled. When they reached the bottom of the hollow, Blake told the half-breed to stop, and he took his comrades aside. "There's something I must tell you," he said.
Up, there! lève-toi, cochon!" shouted I, in the elegant terms of address which experience had taught me were the only ones that had any effect upon the stolid sensibilities of the half-breed, at the same time administering to him a kick that produced a thud and a grunt, as if actually bestowed on the unclean quadruped to which I had just likened him.
Lawson, pretending to examine some of Gibeault's goods, stooped and whispered: "We're actin' like fools. If we keep this up our bosses will fire us both." "Let's swap even you take every other skin at your own figure," returned the French half-breed. "Agreed," said Lawson, straightening up. No longer outbidding one another, they got the next few skins below the market price.
The village was alarmed, for the Crows had never seen ox, horse, or wagon; but the excitement was allayed when it was found that the strange outfit was the property of the half-breed trader. He had brought with him his wife, a white woman; she, too, was an object of much curiosity to the Indians. The trader built a lodge of wood and stones, and exposed all his goods for sale.
Augustus Barnard would not have been spared, but for the intervention of the sailing-master of the Grampus. This sailing-master was a half-breed named Dirk Peters, and was the person whom Captain Len Guy had gone to look for in Illinois! The Grampus then took a south-east course under the command of the mate, who intended to pursue the occupation of piracy in the southern seas.
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