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Updated: June 16, 2025
But she must never be seen in that dance-girl's dress again, at least, not till I learn more about this Stark. It makes no difference whether this one is the man or not; he will come and I shall know him. For a year I have felt that the time was growing short, and now I know it." "No, no!" Alluna cried; "we have no strangers here. No white men except the soldiers and this one have come in a year.
Through the winter days, when the caribou were in the North and the moose were scarce, whole families of natives came and camped there, for Alluna, his squaw, drew to her own blood, and they felt it their due to eat of the bounty of him who ruled them like an overlord; but when the first goose honked they slipped away until, by the time the salmon showed, the house was empty again and silent, save for Alluna and the youngsters.
"Well, he ain't the kind that would marry a half-breed." Alluna pondered this cryptic remark unsuccessfully, and was still seeking its solution when her lord continued: "If she really got to loving him it would be bad for all of us." Evidently Alluna read some hidden meaning back of these words, for she spoke quickly, but in her own tongue now, as she was accustomed to do when excited or alarmed.
"We've got to find her and Gale, and we haven't a minute to lose. I'm afraid we're too late as it is. I wish it was daylight. Damn the darkness, anyhow! It makes it ten times harder." His incoherence alarmed his listener more than his words. "Were have you look?" "I've been to the house, but Alluna is crazy, and says Gale has gone to kill Stark, as near as I can make out.
He had experienced a profound sense of pity for her upon learning her father's relation to Alluna, but this also largely vanished when he found that the girl was entirely oblivious to its significance.
What happens after that won't matter much, you four will be provided for. We are to leave in an hour, one at a time, to avoid comment." "But why did this man stop here?" insisted the woman. "Why did he not stay on the steamboat and go to Dawson?" "He's a friend of Lee's. He is going with us." Then he added, almost in a whisper, "Before we return I shall know." Alluna seized his arm.
"Thank you, Alluna, for making a man of me when I'd nearly forgotten. Now you stay here." He knew he could count on her obedience, and so he left her. When he had gone she drew the shawl up over her face and crouched in the doorway, straining her eyes after him through the dark. In time she began to rock and sway, and then to chant, until the night moaned with the death-song of her people.
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