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The factor's eyes were good and he recognized the occupants of the craft quite easily, and as he saw Stane's interest in them, the frown gathered about his eyes once more, and he muttered to himself: "I wonder what Mr. Ainley's little game means?" Then as he was unable to find any answer to his question he turned again to his own affairs.
I understand this Chigmok is what the Indians call a bad man but perhaps you know him?" He broke off and looked directly at Anderton as he spoke, and waited for a reply. The mounted policeman nodded, and as casually as he could replied: "Yes, I have met him. He is no good." As the policeman replied, Helen, who was watching Ainley's face, saw a subtle change come over it.
The stolen canoe was a very ample reason, and so little inclined was the thief to seek the presence of Sir James Yardely, that when he reached a creek three miles or so up the river, he deliberately turned aside, and at his first camp he used Ainley's note to light his pipe, tossing what was left of it into the fire without the least compunction.
Gerald Ainley's canoe had almost reached the junction of the rivers, on the return journey, and he and his companion were battling hard against the acceleration of the current, when the Indian gave a grunt and looked round. "What is it, Joe?" asked Ainley quickly. "Man with canoe," answered the Indian laconically. "He make a portage." "Where?"
"No good!" said the Indian, and turned the bow of the canoe to the river once more. Island after island they inspected and hailed; meanwhile keeping a sharp look out on either side of the river, but in vain. They were hoarse with shouting when the last of the islands was reached, and on Ainley's face a look of anxiety manifested itself.
"He is following us, he will be here, presently." "Then I shall see him?" "I hope so. But we must hurry on, dear. The dogs " "Bother the dogs ." "But I want to hear Gerald Ainley's explanation. It is important that I should." "I have already heard it," said Helen quickly. "It is full of lies." "You think so?" "I know it." "All the more reason that I should hear it with Anderton.
The girl waited, hoping that he would continue, and whilst she did so for one moment visioned Miskodeed in all her wild barbaric beauty and her mind, recalling Ainley's words upon the matter of the girl's relation to the man before her, wondered if there lay the reason. Stane still remained silent, showing no disposition to complete his thought; and it was the girl who broke the silence.
As she pursued the idea Ainley's suggestions came back to her with hateful force, and she remembered the Indian girl's attitude after Stane's departure. Other things she remembered and her mind echoed the words which had awakened the man's anger at the time they were uttered. "Behold an idyll of the land!"
The last time his eyes alighted on Ainley the latter had ceased to write and was sitting staring into the fire with sombre eyes. Then sleep overtook him completely. He awoke in the grey dawn with Anderton's voice in his ears, and with a powdery snow driving into his eyes. "What " "Ainley's gone.
She remembered his declaration that he had never seen Miskodeed except on the two occasions at Fort Malsun, and though Ainley's evil suggestions recurred to her mind, she dismissed them instantly. Her lover was her own The sledge came to a sudden standstill; and lying there she caught a clamour of excited voices.
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