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But Charley's wife and children lived at Benicia, and we had made the place our headquarters, so that we always returned to it. "I'll tell you what we can do," I said, after several fruitless weeks had passed; "we can wait some slack water till Big Alec has run his line and gone ashore with the fish, and then we can go out and capture the line.
The box packed, it was lashed upon the rear of the komatik, and on the floor of the sledge, in front of the box, Toby spread an untanned caribou skin, and upon it lashed their sleeping bags, securing his rifle and an ax under the lashings, and tying to them his own and Charley's snowshoes. "Look out for bad ice, and be wonderful careful on the ballicaders," cautioned Mrs.
At last he came up to Charley and softly placed his fingers on the scar, feeling the skull. Charley turned quickly. There was something in the long, piercing look of the surgeon which seemed to come through limitless space to the sleeping and imprisoned memory of Charley's sick mind. A confused, anxious, half-fearful look crept into the wide blue eyes.
Peigan Charley's bovine stare changed swiftly as the white chief whom he regarded above all men gave his decision. Its stolidity had given way to incredulity, and Bill found in it a source of amusement. Suddenly Charley thrust up one hand. The long, tawny fingers were parted, and he counted off each one. "One, two, tree, four," he enumerated, bending each finger in turn.
All day, as he walked through the forest, he labored to teach the young dog to trot quietly at his heels, or to walk silently in front of him. Charley's purpose, of course, was to have the dog always at hand, to give him warning of the approach of man or beast, and to fight for him, if necessary. That the pup should learn not to betray himself or his master, was equally needful.
They would not wish a promising young officer to be lost without taking all possible steps for his recovery." Charley's spirits rose as he found his friends even more sanguine than himself as to the finding of Ned. They talked on and on without any material alteration in their proposed plan.
And as he and Lew patrolled the timber, he made it evident to his chum what a vital part that battery would play in his success. But neither of them saw any way for Charley to come into immediate possession of it. As the days passed and the forest still slumbered in safety, the sharp edge of Charley's anxiety wore off.
"Well, you see, Charley's a good fellow at bottom, and a clever fellow too at least so says the schoolmaster; though I must confess that, so far as my experience goes, he's only clever at finding out excuses for not doing what I want him to. But still I'm told he's clever, and can use his pen well; and I know for certain that he can use his tongue well.
The snowballs were flying in all directions and Bert was hit on the back and on the shoulder. "I'll pay you back!" he cried, to Charley Mason, who had hit him in the back, and he let fly a snowball which landed directly on Charley's neck. Some of the snow went down Charley's back and made him shiver from the cold. "I wouldn't stand that, Charley," said Danny Rugg, who was close at hand.
"And it's too late for even Grigsby's boa constrictor to help us out." Maria seemed to have understood, for he grunted, encouragingly: "Go ahead! Ever'body go ahead!" And tacked on a sentence in Spanish. "Maria says they'll paddle all night," translated Charley's father, for Charley. "That will help, but I expect a lot of other fellows will do the same."
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