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He would have given a good deal for a glimpse of the motive that lay behind. But he had to go without it. Piers was in no expansive mood. Perhaps he might have found it difficult to explain himself even had he so desired. Whatever the motive that had urged him, it urged him no longer, or it had been diverted into a side-channel.
Chichester followed along the open shore, holding his rod high with both hands, stumbling over the big rocks, wading knee-deep across a side-channel of the river, but keeping his feet somehow, until the fish paused in the lower part of the pool called La Batture. Here there was a chance to reel in line, and the men poled the canoe up from below, to be ready for the next turn in the contest.
But it allus come out the nighest side-channel, an' not bubblin' up an' up. 'But with niver a wink at the helm? 'No; nor you. It's agin reason. I'll leave it to any man! Bettles appealed to the circle about the stove, but the fight was on between himself and Lon McFane. 'Reason or no reason, it's the truth I'm tellin' ye.
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