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Anderton tried to persuade the chief to send a couple of his young men with a message down to Fort Malsun, but the fellow says it is impossible in this weather to make the journey without dogs, which I dare say is true enough." "Then," said the girl with a gay laugh, "we have a further respite." "Respite?" he said wonderingly. "Yes from civilization. I am not absolutely yearning for it yet."
He keel Canif and Ligan, and he would me haf keeled to save zee guns and blankets and zee tea and tabac, dog dat he ees!" "Perhaps it was not the price he was saving," said Anderton. "Perhaps he was afraid that the story would be told and that the mounters would seek out his trail, Chigmok?" "By gar! Yees, I never tink of dat," cried the half-breed as if a light had broken on him suddenly.
"Where does this go to?" he asked over the camp fire at night, pointing to the frozen waterway. "It makes a big bend and falls into the river above Fort Malsun," said Anderton. "And the other way? Where does it come from?" "Don't know!" answered Anderton. "Never travelled it!" "But I haf," said Jean Bènard. "I haf been up eet fiftee miles.
"Yes," answered Stane, with a short laugh, "as good a mate as a man could have, a mate that happens to be a lady!" "A lady!" Anderton whistled. "Up here! By Jove! you've both got pluck." "Well, you see, Anderton, it's not exactly a matter of choice. We were stranded together, and this cabin happened to offer itself. But loose your dogs, and come and be introduced!"
A notable instance of this system was brought before the Institution in a paper read on the "Hydraulic Canal Lift at Anderton, on the River Weaver," by S. Duer, and another instance exists on the Canal de New Fosse, at Fontinettes, in France, the engineers being Messrs. Clark and Standfield, who have other lifts in progress.
If the child learned Greek from a professor and could pick up a few of Roberta's songs as an accomplishment, she might do well enough and a governess in the house, in spite of the money paid by Mr. Anderton to keep her, was a continual gall and worry to them. Halcyone knew very little about her stepfather.
The Anderton family were not lovers of art and, while in London, Halcyone had been too unhappy to care or even ask to be taken to galleries and Cheiron had not suggested doing so; he was a good deal occupied himself. But now it was a great pleasure to him to watch and see what impression they would make upon a perfectly fresh eye.
Anderton not wish especially for her company that morning, her stepfather offered to drive her there in his phaeton on his way to the city. "She grows upon one, Lu," he said to his wife, when Halcyone had gone up to put on her hat. "She is like some quiet, soothing book; she is a kind of comfort but she looks confoundedly pale to-day.
Out of the wood it must be snowing like the very devil, and he can't go far. I'm going after him with Jean Bènard, and I want you to look after Chigmok and these Indians of Ainley's." "All right, Anderton! But you won't catch Ainley, you know." "Why not?" "Because," was the reply given with quiet significance, "I am afraid that Ainley has gone very far indeed."
"I tink onlee of zee price dat hee save." "What sort of a man was he? What did he look like, Chigmok?" "He dark an' vhat you call han'some. He haf sometimes one glass to hees eye, an " "Ainley, by Heaven!" cried Stane in extreme amazement. "I not know hees name," answered the half-breed, "but I tink he ees of zee Company." Anderton looked doubtfully at Stane who suffered no doubt at all.
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