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Adolay laughed heartily at this, and Cheenbuk joined her, feeling his nose at the same time, as if to make sure that its handsome proportions were not changed. "And look look, father!" resumed the girl, growing excited over the letter; "that is your friend Mozwa! I feel sure of it by the shape of his legs. Who could mistake his legs? Nobody is like mother. She does legs as well as faces.
The sound was loud because the charges were big also because two guns were fired at once." "I heard only one," returned the girl. "That is because you have not heard much firing of guns. Adolay is not yet as old as her father. The traders from the great fresh lake must have come to our land, and that is the reason why our people have forsaken the old home."
The Eskimo was prompt as well as intelligent. He did not wait for explanations or allow surprise to delay him. With a bound he was beside the girls, had grasped Idazoo, and looked to Adolay for further instructions. "Hold her till I tie up her hands," she said, drawing a stout line of deerskin from a pocket in the breast of her dress.
"Isquay is well," replied the old chief, and a barely perceptible sigh of relief escaped Nazinred. Then Mozwa asked about his wife and received a satisfactory answer. Still, it was obvious to both men, from the old chief's manner, that there was something wrong. "Adolay", said the old man, and stopped. "Dead?" asked Nazinred, with a look of alarm that he did not attempt to conceal.
"Will Adolay come for a drive?" said our gallant Eskimo one day when the sun had risen near enough to the eastern horizon to almost, but not quite, extinguish the stars. "We go to seek for walruses." The Indian maiden was sitting at the time in the snow residence which belonged to Mangivik.
"Mine is Cheenbuk." "They call me Adolay; that, in our language, means the summer-time." "Well, Adolay, I don't know what my name, Cheenbuk, means perhaps it means winter-time. Anyhow, listen to me. If there is any chance of you being killed you must not go back. I will take you to my mother's igloe and you will live with her." "Have you, too, got a mother?" asked Adolay with interest.
"But it is disappointing to find that they have forsaken the old place, and it may be many days before we find them." "Father!" exclaimed Adolay at this point, a bright look overspreading her features, "mother must have left some sign on a piece of bark, as I did at Waruskeek." "I had expected as much," said the Indian, looking round the camp, "and I had thought to find it here."
But what is that on his wife's back not a new baby, surely?" "Why not, my child?" "Poor man!" sighed Adolay. "He had enough to provide for before." "Poor woman!" thought Cheenbuk, but he maintained a discreet silence. Of course it was decided to follow up the trail of the tribe without delay. As Nazinred had surmised, it was easily found and not difficult to follow.
On hearing this the heart of Adolay beat anxiously, and for a few moments she was undecided whether to run to the tree to which the Eskimo was bound and set him free by cutting his bonds, or enter the council-tent, tell the story of his having saved her mother's life, and plead that the youth's might be spared. Both courses, she knew, were about equally desperate.
He also carried with him a bow and quiver of arrows, with the ornamented fire-bag made for him by Adolay which contained his flint, steel, and tinder as well as his beloved pipe and tobacco.
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