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Long time" he motioned back into the ages with one slim brown hand "fore Holy Cross here, Yukon Inua take good care Pymeuts." "No tell Father Wills?" "No." Then in a low guttural voice: "Shamán come again." "Gracious! When?" "To-night." "Jiminny Christmas!" They sat and smoked and coughed.
Don't you think you'd better square Yukon Inua? Don't b'lieve he likes me." And they left her, shivering in her "Holy Cross clo'es," staring after them, and sadly swinging her medal on its walrus-string. "I don't mind sayin' I'm glad to leave Pymeut behind," said the Colonel. "Same here." "You're safe to get into a muss if you mix up with anything that has to do with women.
Had he brought it on that last long journey of his to Russian America, and left it to his Pymeut children with his bones? Well, Yukon Inua should not have it yet. The Boy thrust the medal into a pocket of his chaparejos, and crawled into his snow-covered bed. "Raise the stone, and ye shall find me; cleave the wood, and there am I."
'I gi' ten dolla, I say. She say, 'I no sell; no not for a hunner' but she give it him! for to make Yukon Inua to let him go safe. Hein? Savvy?" And lapsing into Ingalik, he endorsed this credential not to be denied. "It is true," he wound up in English. The "Autocratrix Russorum" was solemnly handed back. "You have make a brave journey.
"No; him say, 'Go! plenty quick, plenty far. Hey, you! Mush!" They smoked awhile in silence broken only by coughs. "Shamán say, 'Yukon Inua plenty mad." "Who is Yukon Inua? Where does he live?" "Unner Yukon ice," whispered Nicholas. "Oh, the river spirit?... Of course." "Him heap strong.
In some men's hearts the ice "went out" at the sound, and the melting welled up in their eyes. Summer and liberty were very near. "Oh, hurry, Yukon Inua; let the ice go out and let the boats come in." But the next few days hung heavily. The river-ice humped its back still higher, but showed no disposition to "git."
The inua never came back to the room, and the whale drifted upon the shore. Raven now found himself a prisoner and was saying to himself, "Now I am in a pretty boat! I have enjoyed the trip, but how is one to get out of a kayak like this?" Presently he said, "Hark! What is that I hear? As I live, it is someone walking on the roof of the house!"
"To-morrow," she said, lowering her tear-harshened voice, "you find blow-hole. You give this to Yukon Inua say I send it. He will not hate you any more." She burst into a fresh flood of tears.
I shall run away before the inua of the whale catches me." And away he ran. When he was gone the people looked at one another and said, "Perhaps he is right; we'd better go too." And away they all ran, each one trying to rub the oil from his hands as he went. From his hiding-place Raven looked on and laughed as he saw the people running away.
He would have them to know, so highly were these present specimens of the doubtful race regarded by the Pymeuts such friends were they, that Nicholas' sister had given him this for an offering to Yukon Inua, that the Great Spirit might help them on their way. He owned himself wrong to have delayed this sacrifice.
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