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They thought I'd cleared Scowl Austin off the earth." "Do they know who did?" Potts and Maudie asked in a breath. "That Klondyke Indian that's sweet on Princess Muckluck." "What had Austin done to him?" "Nothin'. Reckon Skookum Bill was about the only man on Bonanza who had no objection to the owner of o. Said so in Court." "What did he kill him for?"
"What a skookum son-in-law to take up the business when I let go!" he murmured happily. "Oh, Matt, I'm so blamed sorry for you; but it's just got to be done. If you're going to build up the Blue Star Navigation Company after the Panama Canal is opened for business, you've got to know shipping; and to know it from center to circumference.
"We have found the good hunting," he said, as Rolf steadied the canoe at the landing and Skookum, nearly well again, wagged his entire ulterior person to welcome the wanderer home. The first thing to catch the boy's eye was a great, splendid beaver skin stretched on a willow hoop. "Ho, ho!" he exclaimed. "Ugh; found another pond."
Muckluck gaped, sat down a minute, and rocked her body back and forth with hidden face, got up and called sharply: "Skookum!" They took the trail for town. Potts said, when he passed them, they were going as if the devil were at their heels wouldn't even stop to say how the Colonel was. So Potts had come to see for himself and to bring the Colonel some letters just arrived.
The hunters' first thought was to tie up Skookum, but a glance showed that this was unnecessary. They softly dropped the packs and the sick dog lay meekly down beside them. Then they crept forward with hunter caution, favoured by an easterly breeze. Their first thought was of beaver, but they had seen no recent sign, nor was there anything that looked like a beaver pond.
If so, you have listened to the call of the Skookum Chuck, as the Chinook speakers call the rollicking, tumbling streams that sing their way through the canyons with a music so dulcet, so insistent, that for many moons the echo of it lingers in your listening ears, and you will, through all the years to come, hear the voices of those mountain-rivers calling you to return.
Very, very slowly and silently they entered that copse. But nothing appeared until there was a rush in the thickest part and up leaped the buck. This was too much for Skookum. He shot forward like a wolf, fastened on one hind leg, and the buck went crashing head over heels. Before it could rise, another shot ended its troubles. And now a careful study shed the light desired.
"Ugh! good," was all he said as he rejoined Rolf; and they set out, as the sun went down, on their long journey due northward, Quonab, Rolf, and Skookum. They had not gone a hundred yards before the dog turned back, raced to a place where he had a bone in cache and rejoining there trotted along with his bone.
That worthy made a quick reach for his rifle, but Quonab covered him and said in tones that brooked no discussion, "Sit down!" Hoag did so, sullenly, then growled: "All right; my partners will be here in ten minutes." Rolf was startled. Quonab and Skookum were not. "We settled your partners up in the hills," said the former, knowing that one bluff was as good as another.
"Ugh, come," said the Indian. That night, for the first time, Rolf slept in the outdoor air of a wigwam. He slept late, and knew nothing of the world about him till Quonab called him to breakfast. Skookum Accepts Rolf at Last Rolf expected that Micky would soon hear of his hiding place and come within a few days, backed by a constable, to claim his runaway ward.
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