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"Go 'way." "Nonsense, Bob. I want you to stay with me to-night, come." "Injin squaw no good for waugee woman. Go 'way." "Listen, Bob. You are daughter of a chief: so am I. Your father had many warriors: so has mine. It is good that you stay with me. Come." The Princess chuckled and suffered herself to be lifted up. A few moments later and they re-entered the hut, hand in hand.
She stopped and looked at him, and then, with an impulse of impudence that only half concealed a more serious vanity, asked, "Do you think I might have made a good squaw?" "I don't know," he replied quietly. "I never saw enough of them to know."
First came the Medicine Man carrying in either hand a fan made of white feathers as signs of peace and friendship. Behind him followed the chieftain and his squaw, with twenty or thirty braves, who filled the air with wild yells of welcome.
"Run, Monsieur; I keep bad Indians off," urged Little Fellow. "Run save white squaw and papoose run, Monsieur." Now, whatever may be said to the contrary, however brave two men may be, they cannot stand off a horde of armed savages.
Even his one friend in the wilderness, Edmonton Ridgar, on whose sound heart he would have risked his soul, had passed him by without a look. Verily, life had suddenly been stripped, as the hapless birch, of all its possessions. He was thinking grimly of these things when a young squaw came lightly up from somewhere and stopped for a second beside De Courtenay.
"Come clean, McRae. Who was it? There'll be nothin' doin' till I know that," he growled. "My daughter." West glared at him, for once astonished out of profanity. "What?" "My daughter Jessie." "Goddlemighty, d'ja mean to tell me a girl did it?" He threw back his head in a roar of Homeric laughter. "Ever hear the beat of that? A damn li'l' Injun squaw playin' her tricks on Bully West!
"Tell him," commanded the squaw. So Anne told her little story of adventure, and said, "And they are going to take me right to Rose Freeman in Brewster. Nakanit's mother talks English." Amos listened in amazement. "I told Amanda you'd started for Brewster," he responded, "and I sent word to father that I was going there, so I might as well go. I've got things to eat.
There are men, sir, who violate the laws of the Most High by living with Indian women squaw men, sir, as they are called." Dunn rose with a face livid with weakness and passion. "Who dares say that?
She turned her eyes away at the question, and sat for a long time with that vacant look on her face as though seeing all her past; then suddenly she turned, and looking squarely at me, she said, "Me Red Arrow's squaw." I was amazed, but could not doubt her word, as she had told me the truth so far as I had investigated.
There was an eagle's nest half way up the rocks, with young eagles in it, and the old chief said that the one that got there first and brought him a young eagle, should have the squaw.
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