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This time it was Xavier's eyes that flashed a hint of fear. "Non!" he answered quickly. "Lapierre, she " The other silenced him, speaking rapidly. "Lapierre, she t'ink she mak' us w'at you call, de double cross!" Xavier noted that the malignant eyes flashed dangerously "Lapierre, she sma't but me I'm sma't too. Dere's plent' men 'long de revair lak' to see de las' of Pierre Lapierre.
"No steal 'um, catch 'um big crik, plent' gold, heap. You sabee?" Thomas understood, but only partly believed. His brother argued that it was a case of "nothing venture, nothing have" and he would take the risk and follow Pete into the wintry wilderness. If indecision is a sign of weak minds then there are but few feeble-minded men in an Alaskan gold camp. Here men decide matters quickly.
"Plent' much good luck dis time," he said, turning to Madge. "Five vison, vat you call mink, and a pair martens. Also one fox, jus' leetle young fox but pelt ver' nice. You want for see?"
A'm leeve een Montan' som'tam' som'tam' een Canada. A'm no lak dees contrie! Too mooch hot. Too mooch Greasaire! Too mooch sheep. A'm lak I go back hom'. A'm ride for T. U. las' fall an' A'm talk to round-up cook, Walt Keeng, hees nam', an' he com' from Areezoon'. She no like Montan'. She say Areezoon' she bettaire no fence beeg range plent' cattle.
Nayther do I. We've never had very much to like, but we've seen others around us with plent an' faith we've been the happiest that we have." She only stopped to take breath before on she went again: "There have been times when we've been most starvin', but me father never lost his pluck or his spirits.
But Tony quickly added: "An' no one else be kill buta da strike-break'. No odder peoples on da Nomber Twent' disa day at night. An' da trainmen dey alla have plent' time to jomp. "Only da men wat steala your job," he repeated craftily. And with a sinking heart Alex saw that the rest of the easily excitable foreigners had been won. Again he moved back out of sight. Something must be done!
The muzzle of his revolver was at the aperture when he heard Bram's voice. "M'sieu ze revolv' ze knife or I mus' keel yon. Ze wolve plent' hungr' " Bram was standing just outside of his line of vision. He had not spoken loudly or threateningly, but Philip felt in the words a cold and unexcited deadliness of purpose against which he knew that it would be madness for him to fight.
And plent' Injun in de Nort' dey lak' dat too. But dey 'fraid to keel him. We do de work Lapierre she tak' de money. Sacré! Me I'm 'fraid, too." He paused and shrugged significantly. "But som' day I'm git de chance an' den leetle Du Mont she dismees Lapierre from de serveece. Den me I'm de bos'. Bien!" The other glanced at him in admiration.
We accordingly hove to, that they might be able to get up the side, when a huge fellow in a broad-brimmed straw hat and a pair of trousers with pink stripes came on deck, and walking up to the captain, shook hands with him as with an old friend. "Ah, massa cap'n, glad to see you 'gain. You take plent slavy him dare all ready;" and he pointed up the river. "All right, Master Pogo.
It getta my goat." The boys laughed at his woe-begone face. "Put some more water with it," suggested Billy at a venture. Tony looked at him with such a glare of contempt that the amateur baker wilted. "I usa de water!" he exclaimed. "Plent water! No maka de stick."