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Updated: May 23, 2025
"He shall die," was the remark of Alizay just as the girl came within hearing, "he has killed one of our braves." "Ay, and he shall die by torture," said Magadar, who was a relation of the man that had been slain. "Ho! ho!" exclaimed most of the warriors in tones of approval, but there were a few among them who were silent. They leaned to mercy's side.
The brave Alizay, she knew, was to mount guard over the Eskimo captive that night, and she had a suspicion that Adolay had taken advantage of that fact to pay the captive not the Indian, oh dear no! a visit. Unable to rest quietly in her tent under the powerful influence of this idea, she resolved to take a walk herself a sort of moonlight ramble as it were in that direction.
"Yes, and Alizay will encourage him," returned Nazinred, with a frown. "The man is well-named." This remark about the name had reference to the word Alizay, which means gunpowder, and which had been given to the Indian in his boyhood because of his fiery and quarrelsome disposition.
This news greatly increased the fury of Alizay, but he had scarcely realised the truth when another lad, with, if possible, still more glaring eyes and a gaping mouth, rushed in to tell that the girl Adolay was also missing.
Alizay suspected nothing. He turned round, and the Eskimo allowed him to take about five paces before he moved. Then, with the speed of lightning, he ran the sharp blade down his side, severing all his bonds at one sweep. Next moment he was free, but he instantly resumed his former position and attitude until his guard was within a yard of him.
Alizay steered the other, and the rest of the braves returned to the village to gloat over the news that Idazoo had to tell, to feast on the produce of the previous day's hunt, and to clear or obfuscate their intellects, more or less, with their tobacco-pipes.
Holding out her moccasin at arm's-length, the better to note the effect of her work, she expressed regret that her father had gone off with the hunters, for she felt sure he would have been able to allay the war-fever among the young braves if he had remained at home. "Ay, he would easily have put down Alizay and Magadar; but the old chief can do nothing, he is growing too old.
Only a few of the balls reached the fugitives, and went skipping over the water, each wide of its mark. "Point high," said Magadar to Alizay, who had just re-charged his gun. The Indian obeyed, fired, and watched for the result, but no visible result followed.
Then he sprang upon him, dropped the knife and seized him by the throat with both hands, so tightly that he was quite incapable of uttering a cry. Alizay made a vigorous struggle for life, but he had no chance with the burly Eskimo, who quickly decided the fight by giving his adversary a blow with his fist that laid him insensible on the ground.
But she had not gone far, when, on turning a bush, she almost ran into the arms of a young Indian girl named Idazoo, an event which upset all her plans and perplexed her not a little all the more that this girl was jealous of her, believing that she was trying to steal from her the affections of Alizay, whom she regarded as her own young man!
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