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Would he ever be able to tell her what was in his heart, what indeed had been there since the moment of their first meeting at Fort Malsun? Between him and the desire of his heart rose those bitter years in prison.
Anderton tried to persuade the chief to send a couple of his young men with a message down to Fort Malsun, but the fellow says it is impossible in this weather to make the journey without dogs, which I dare say is true enough." "Then," said the girl with a gay laugh, "we have a further respite." "Respite?" he said wonderingly. "Yes from civilization. I am not absolutely yearning for it yet."
"It looks quite professional," she said; "there isn't an Indian girl in the North could have done it better." "There isn't one who could have done it half as well," he answered with a laugh. "Are you sure?" she asked quickly. "How about Miskodeed?" "Miskodeed?" he looked at her wonderingly. "Yes, that beautiful Indian girl I saw you talking with up at Fort Malsun." Stane laughed easily.
We shall be able to engage him to take us to Fort Malsun, and so to safety and civilization." "Oh!" laughed the girl, "are you so anxious to go back to civilization?" Stane's face suddenly clouded, and the old hardness came back to it. "There is no going back for me yet," he answered bitterly. "But you will return, some day," she answered quietly. "I have no doubt of that at all.
"Where does this go to?" he asked over the camp fire at night, pointing to the frozen waterway. "It makes a big bend and falls into the river above Fort Malsun," said Anderton. "And the other way? Where does it come from?" "Don't know!" answered Anderton. "Never travelled it!" "But I haf," said Jean Bènard. "I haf been up eet fiftee miles.
"It is Ainley, unquestionably," said Stane, answering the question in his eyes. "The description is his, though it is a trifle vague and the monocle " "He affects a monocle still then?" "I have seen it, and it is so. He sported it down at Fort Malsun." Anderton nodded, and for a moment looked into the fire, whistling thoughtfully to himself. Then he looked up.
"Possibly," agreed the younger man. "Anyhow, you know exactly who you have to look for and that ought to make your task much easier. Rodwell will instruct all the Indians who show up at Fort Malsun to keep a bright look-out and no doubt in a few days you will get track of her. But as I said just now, she must be found, at all costs she must be found!" "Yes, Sir James!
What a man had done once on the way of crime, he could do again, and as her conviction of Gerald Ainley's guilt grew, she was quite sure that somehow he was the moving spirit in her companion's deportation from Fort Malsun. He had not expected to see Hubert Stane, and when the latter had demanded an interview he had been afraid, and in his fear had taken steps for his removal.
"It was that Indian girl who was up at Fort Malsun!" "Miskodeed!" cried Helen. "That I believe was her name. She looked on Stane as her lover, and she did you the honour of being jealous of you!" Ainley laughed as he spoke. "Absurd, of course But what will you? The primitive, untutored heart is very simple in its emotions and the man was her paramour!" "It is a lie!" cried Helen hotly.
But when Clote Scarpe went away they quarreled, and Lhoks the panther and Nemox the fisher took to killing the other animals. Malsun the wolf soon followed, and ate all he killed; and Meeko the squirrel, who always makes all the mischief he can, set even the peaceable animals by the ears, so that they feared and distrusted each other.
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