United States or Finland ? Vote for the TOP Country of the Week !
You love the factor!" "Hush!" whispered Maren, dry-lipped. The roar from the river bank had sharpened itself into one point of utterance which pierced the calm heavens in a mingling of native speech, French and broken English from Nakonkirhirinon and halfbreed, and, worse than both, dissolute "white Indian," and its burden was, "A skin for a skin!"
He had leaped high, for the Nakonkirhirinon was taller than a common man, and he clutched the muscled neck in a grasp of steel, pressing his shoulder against his adversary's face, to still the outcry he knew would come.
One step where there should have been two, and the half-breed trapper raised himself and gave the first "Hi! Hi!" Like startled wolves they were up all around him in a moment and down on that empty tepee with its one sentry! A torch flared redly with the sudden revealing of a slim youth in buckskins and two Nakonkirhirinon warriors deep in the Great Sleep.
Word Of The Day