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Mebby the woman would have cheated me, but I had Hauck on the hip because I saw him kill a man when he was drunk a white man from Fort MacPherson. Helped him hide the body. And then oh, it was funny! I ran across Bucky! He was living in a shack a dozen miles from here, an' he didn't know Marge was the O'Doone baby.
The story will never be forgotten of how Follette and Ladouceur swam their mad race through the Death Chute for love of the girl who waited at the other end, or of how Campbell O'Doone, the red-headed giant at Fort Resolution, fought the whole of a great brigade in his effort to run away with a scow captain's daughter.
In his madness Tavish had believed that his punishment was near believed that the chance which had taken him so near to the home of the man whose life he had destroyed was his last great warning, and before killing himself he had written out fully his confession for Michael O'Doone, and had sworn to the innocence of the woman whom he had stolen away.
Bucky says she was like a mad woman, and that she ran screeching out into the night, leaving the kid with him. He followed but he couldn't find her. He waited, but she never came back. A snow storm covered her trail. Then Bucky says he went mad the fool! He waited till spring, keeping that kid, and then he made up his mind to get it back to Papa O'Doone in some way.
And the woman the woman in the coach, the woman who had left in her seat this picture that was growing in his heart like a living thing who was she? Was her quest one of vengeance of retribution? Was Tavish the man she was seeking? Up in that mountain valley where the girl had stood on that rock had his name been Michael O'Doone? He was trembling when he went on, deeper into the forest.
And the brigade loved O'Doone, though it beat him, for these men of the strong north love courage and daring.
She followed, and we met as Metoosin and I were returning. We did not go back to the Château. We turned about and followed your trail, to seek our daughter. And now...." Out of the shadow of the trees there broke upon them suddenly the anxious voice of the woman. "Napao! where are you?" "Dear God, it is the old, sweet name she called me so many years ago," whispered Michael O'Doone. "She is awake.
His mind had harked back quickly, at her mention of that name, to the woman in the coach of the Transcontinental, the woman who was seeking a man by the name of Michael O'Doone. Of course the woman was her mother. Her name, too, must have been O'Doone. Very slowly the girl detached herself from her bear, and came until she stood within three steps of David.
Vividly he saw again the dark, haunting eyes of the woman in the coach, and heard again the few low, tense words with which she had revealed to him her quest of a man a man by the name of Michael O'Doone. In her presence he had felt the nearness of tragedy.
Crazier'n you were over the Breed's woman, only he didn't have the nerve. Just moped around waiting keeping out of O'Doone's way. Trapper, O'Doone was or a Company runner. Forgot which. Anyway he went on a long trip, in winter, and got laid up with a broken leg long way from home. Wife and baby alone, an' Bucky sneaked up one day and found the woman sick with fever. Out of her head!
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