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Besides Sallitt, looking out there where he had jammed himself, I saw no one. By a paddle-stroke now, and another presently, I had closely approached her about four in the afternoon, though my awe of the ship was complicated by that perfume of hers, whose fearful effects I knew.
Water might dry on them in an hour or less. These drops were nearly dry, save one or two where the sun made them shine." "A careless paddle-stroke did it," I said in a low voice. "No Indian is careless." "What do you mean by that?" "I mean, Loskiel, that the boulder was splashed purposely, or that there are white men in that canoe." "Splashed purposely?" I said, bewildered. "Perhaps.
"Then I don't think it nice here at all," she complained. "I shall sit up straight so the brush may put my eyes out!" But her head pressed even closer against him, and careful not to interrupt his paddle-stroke she touched his face for an instant with her hand. "It's there," she purled, as if utterly comforted. "I wanted to be sure it is so dark!"
At once the whole company answered till the hills rang; and out swung the fleet of canoes with more shouting and singing and firing of guns, each paddle-stroke sounding the death knell to the young Frenchman's hopes. By sunset they were among the islands at the mouth of the Richelieu, where muskrats scuttled through the rushes and wild-fowl clouded the air. The south shore of Lake St.
He had a keen ear, for, even to my forest-trained sense, the sound came but faintly. The crowd hushed its breathing, and the air was unwholesomely still. A dog yelped, and an Indian silenced it with a kick. Each paddle-stroke threw the canoes into sharper relief, and we could distinguish lank arms, and streaming hair.
An awful chorus of barking and howling burst through the forest as the wolves came on, eager for blood. The Indian turned and rejoined his comrades at the canoe. They pushed out into the river, but held the boat in the current by an occasional paddle-stroke, and waited listening.
"Then I don't think it nice here at all," she complained. "I shall sit up straight so the brush may put my eyes out!" But her head pressed even closer against him, and careful not to interrupt his paddle-stroke she touched his face for an instant with her hand. "It's there," she purled, as if utterly comforted. "I wanted to be sure it is so dark!"
Ashore, or in water shallow enough to maneuver his powerful body, Lad could give excellent account of himself against any normal foe. But, beyond his depth, he would fall easy victim to the first well-aimed paddle-stroke. And he knew it. Thus, hesitant, his snarling teeth not two yards from the canoe, he stood growling in futile indignation at the cranky craft's crankier occupants.
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