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Simon condescended to a measure of English which he knew well enough, but which he usually disdained on general principles. He pointed back whence he had come. Boss tyee man goodandam mad. Him say cultus man mamook raise hiyu hell. Catch hiyu skookum powder bang! Whoosh! Upshego!" He mimicked Farwell's words and gestures to a nicety.
Simon grinned again; but he pointed to Sandy's feet. "You mamook hyuhuy moccasin dam quick!" he warned once more. Casey Dunne crossed from the Coldstream Supply Company's store which was also the post office to Bob Shiller's hotel.
Polisman mamook catchum, put um in skookum house, maybeso hang um kopa neck." "What are you talking about, anyway?" Casey demanded. And Simon told him of the track of the patched moccasin and of his warning to Sandy. Casey immediately fitted things together. He knew that Sandy's right moccasin was almost invariably worn through at the toe.
"Find um easy," said Simon scornfully. He pointed to the carcass of the deer. "S'pose you mamook cook um." In the morning Sheila awoke stiff and sore, but rested. Her strong young body, hard and well conditioned by a life in the open and much healthy exercise, refused to indulge in the luxury of after effects of shock. Looking around, she found that her clothes were gone.
Simon lifted McCrae's right foot and placed his finger on a patch beneath the ball of the great toe. His features expanded in a knowing grin. Sandy McCrae's face suddenly became grave and his mouth grim. His voice, when he spoke, was hard and metallic. "Quit this sign business and spit it out of you," he ordered. "Mamook kumtuks! Tell me what you mean!"
Simon surveyed the track gravely, knelt, and examined it minutely. "Mebbyso Injun," he said. "Mebbyso white man," Farwell objected. "What makes you think it's an Indian?" "Oleman moccasin, him," Simon replied oracularly. "White man throw him away; Injun keep him, mend him mamook tipshin klaska." "Something in that, too," Farwell agreed. "It's a straight foot no swing-in to the toe.
Mamook poo! all same shoot. Bang! Whoosh! Up she go!" He waved his hand at the wreck. "You kumtuks that?" Simon nodded, understanding. "Mamook bang," said he; "mamook bust!" "Right," Farwell agreed. "Cultus man come at night. Dark. Black. No see um." He made a footprint in the earth, pointed at it, and then to Simon, and waved a hand at the horizon generally. "You find trail, follow, catch um.
They surged up the coulée, emerging on the higher bench land by the trail. "Look here, Tom," said Dunne, "what did you want to do the shooting for back there? Afraid I'd get rattled and hit somebody?" McHale grinned in the darkness. "Not hardly. Mostly, Casey, you mamook tumtum a heap you look ahead and savvy plenty. You're foolish the way an old dog fox is. But onct in a while you overlook a bet.
I began to speculate, for when my wind left me my dander got hotter and hotter, and I knew I'd never know peace of mind till I dined on roasted mammoth-foot. And I knew, also, that that stood for SKOOKUM MAMOOK PUKAPUK excuse Chinook, I mean there was a big fight coming. Now the mouth of my valley was very narrow, and the walls steep.
The latter dismounted, and, stooping down, touched the young man's worn footgear. "Mamook huyhuy moccasin," said he. "Swap moccasins?" Sandy repeated. "What for? Yours are new. Chee moccasin, you; oleman moccasin, me. What are you getting at? That's fool talk." But Simon insisted. "Mamook huyhuy," said he. "Halo mitlite oleman moccasin." "Why shouldn't I wear my old moccasins?" asked Sandy.
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