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He could hardly believe it possible that this was the same gentle Jennie, the apt scholar, of whom he had hoped so much. His mind went back to one fearful night, seven years before, when he first met her, and saved her. He saw again her dead mother, with her lifeless babe in her bosom, the result of the renegade squaw-man, the vile serpent in human guise, who now menaced his flock.
George Carmack was a squaw-man, and he made the strike." Pierce felt no fear of Joe McCaskey, only dislike and a desire to avoid further contact with him. The prospect of a long winter in close proximity to a proven scoundrel was repugnant. Balanced against this was the magic of Big Lars' name. It was a problem; again indecision rose to trouble him. "I'll think it over," he said, finally.
If she could see him now, what would she think? His mind reverted to a sweet, pure face, and eyes filled with tears. He heard again her parting words: "Find him, Keith; he is somewhere in the North. Bring him back to me, and to the little ones." And he had found him, a degraded squaw-man with the blood of an Indian woman, and a child, upon his hands.
"Swastika!" he said. "And God keep us from the evil eye!" "What do you mean?" asked Mrs. Malcolm. "Sir John," said Burnaby. "He has 'a bad heart." "Stop talking your Indian talk and tell us what you mean." Burnaby balanced himself on the hearth. "Am I to understand you don't know?" he asked. "Well, Morton's Masters, and 'the girl's' Lady Masters, and Bewsher well, he's just a squaw-man."
All the squaws I ever saw before were so thick with grease, and the things that stick to it. . . . I'm beginning to feel for the squaw-man after seeing that girl." "Wasn't she pretty?" Tressa was staring regretfully after the receding couple. "I didn't know they were so dainty " "Wasn't I telling you they aren't " Conrad spoke for the first time: "I've seen that chap before."
"Is that fellow Ennis over to his shack?" asked McIntosh, the squaw-man. "Uh huh," repeated the settler. "D'ye happen to know whether there's a a young 'ooman there too?" "Vat you vant wid dat gal?" asked Papineau this time. "We're just goin' visitin', like," Pat Kilrea informed him. "It's sure a fine day for a ride in the country.
If you don't take him the miners will. I've got a following in this camp, and I'll raise a crowd in fifteen minutes enough to hang this squaw-man, or batter down your barracks to get him. But I don't want to do that; I want to go by the law you've talked so much about; I want you to do the trick." At last Burrell saw the gambler's deviltry.
"That squaw-man," sneered Kink Mitchell. "I wouldn't put on my moccasins to stampede after anything he'd ever find," said Bill. "Same here," announced his partner. "A cuss that's too plumb lazy to fish his own salmon. That's why he took up with the Indians. S'pose that black brother-in-law of his, lemme see, Skookum Jim, eh? s'pose he's in on it?" The old bar-keeper nodded.
Your people call you "squaw-man," your women turn their heads to the one side on the street, and you do not go to their cabins like other men. Why? Your wife Siwash. Is it not so? And this is not good. Wherefore I die. Promise me. Kiss me in token of your promise.
But my hopes that he might appear in the latter condition were blasted when, in response to a shuffling and a bang at the door, I welcomed in a small man with white mustache, wearing the native coat or "parkie," and gloriously, triumphantly full! There was no doubt that this was Ripley recipient of the Victoria cross for gallantry in India, sailor, miner, squaw-man, and devotee of the bottle.
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