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Updated: June 16, 2025
The only one to whom he could talk was Alluna she understood, and though she might not help, the sound of his own voice at least always afforded him some relief. As to Poleon, no one had ever seen him thus. Never in all his life of dream and song and romance had he known a heavy heart until now, for if at times he had wept like a girl, it was at the hurts of others.
A brave man's life is too great a price to pay for a grief that will die in a year." Alluna was speaking swiftly in her own language, her body tense, her face ablaze, and no man seeing her could ever again have called her people stolid. "You think time will cure a love like that?" he said. "Yes, yes!" "That's all you know about it.
Alluna sat huddled up in the doorway, her shawl drawn close about her head, and waited for him until the late sun which at this time of year revolves in a great circle overhead dipped down below the distant mountains for the midnight hour, then rolled slanting out again a few points farther north, to begin its long journey anew; but he did not return.
"Now that we've come to threats, let me talk. I offered to marry you and do the square thing, but if you don't want to, I'll pass up the formality and take you for my squaw, the same as your father took Alluna. I guess you're no better than your mother, so your old man can't say much under the circumstances, and if he don't object, Poleon can't.
"Necia, little girl, what is the trouble?" She was staring past him, and her fingers were fumbling helplessly with the lace of her gown, but she began to show signs of collapse. "I sent him away I gave him up, when he wanted me wanted me Oh, daddy! he wants to marry me and I sent him away." Alluna uttered a short, satisfied exclamation, and, looking at Gale meaningly, said: "It is good.
"She take her 'nother dress; the one I make las' summer," said Alluna, who had followed him in and stood staring as he stared. "When did she go, Alluna? For God's sake, what does this mean?" "I don' know! She come and she go, and I don' see her; mebbe three, four hour ago." "Where's Gale? He'll know. He's gone after her, eh?"
This was the first criticism he had heard of Necia's father, and although Stark volunteered no argument, it was plain that his opinion remained unaffected. The old man went through the store at the rear and straightway sought Alluna. Speaking to her with unwonted severity in the Pah-Ute language, he said: "I have told you never to use your native tongue before strangers.
You're game, Alluna, but there's a limit even to what I can take from you," he said, at last. "I don't ever seem to have noticed it before, but there is. No! I've got to do this thing alone to-night, all of it, for you have no place in it, and I can't let the little girl go on like this. The sooner that soldier knows the better." He leaned down and touched her brown mouth with his grizzled lips.
An up-river steamboat was just landing as he neared the trading-post a freighter, as he noted by her lights. In the glare at the river-bank he saw Poleon and the trader, who had evidently returned from Lee's Creek, and without accosting them he hurried on to the store. Peering in from the darkness, he saw Alluna; no doubt Necia was alone in the house behind.
I took Alluna, and together we drifted North, along the frontier, until we landed here. Every year the little girl got more beautiful and more like her mother, and every year we two loved her more.
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