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"He's doing well, thank you." She stepped to the door to admit Chakawana, who had evidently hurried around from the other house, and now came in, bareheaded and heedless of the cold, bearing a bundle clasped to her breast. "I brought the little fellow home with me. See!" The Indian girl bore her burden to the stove, where she knelt to lift the covering from the child's face. "Hey there!
"She's afraid we'll tell this fellow Marsh," Fraser remarked to Emerson; then, as if that name had some powerful effect upon their informant, Chakawana advanced to the table, and, leaning over it, said: "You know Willis Marsh?" Her pretty wooden face held a mingled expression of fear, malice, and curiosity. "Ouch!" said Fraser, shoving back from his plate.
He don't care for little baby." Constantine's eyes were full of tears as he strove laboriously to voice his religious teachings. He went on with growing agitation: "Chakawana she's mighty scare' of that bad place. and she ask Mr. Marsh again to marry her, but he beat her. That's when I try to kill him. Mebbe Mr. Emerson ain't come so quick, Mr. Marsh go to hell himself."
I have Constantine to protect me, and you will admit he is a capable bodyguard." She smiled slightly, recalling the scene she had interrupted before dinner. "Then, too, Chakawana, his sister, is just as devoted. Rather a musical name, don't you think so, Chakawana? It means 'The Snowbird' in Aleut, but when she's aroused she's more like a hawk. It's the Russian in her, I dare say."
"He will know where the others are." But when his mistress questioned him, Constantine merely replied: "I don' know. I no see Chakawana." "They have been gone since morning, and I can't find them anywhere." "Umph! I guess they all right." "There is something queer about this," said Emerson. "Where have you been all day?" "I go sleep. I tired from fighting last night. I come back now and go work.
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