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Updated: June 7, 2025
You can do something every day at that rate, even in the new snow; but on the ice of the Saguenay, to Haha Bay, there's a pull of sixty miles; you're at Chicoutimi, eleven miles farther, before you know it. Good feed, and good beds, all along. You wrap up, and you don't mind.
In one of the long stillwaters of the mighty stream that rushes from Lac Saint Jean to make the Saguenay below the Ile Maligne and above the cataract of Chicoutimi two birch-bark canoes are floating quietly, descending with rhythmic strokes of the paddle, through the luminous northern twilight.
How should it be done? There was the rifle with which he had killed deer in the woods beyond the Saguenay and bear beyond the Chicoutimi. That was simple and it was obvious; and it could be done at once. He could soon overtake the man who had spoiled the world for him. Yet he was a Norman, and the Norman thinks before he acts.
He intended to push through that day to Chicoutimi; but his start was so late that it seemed to him as if they would never get to Haha Bay. When they arrived, late in the afternoon, all sense of progress thither faded away; it was as if the starting and stopping were one, or contained in the same impulse.
But Vaillantcoeur had broken only a nose, a collar-bone, and two ribs for one like him that was but a bagatelle. A good doctor from Chicoutimi, a few months of nursing, and he would be on his feet again, almost as good a man as he had ever been. It was Leclere who put himself in charge of this. "It is my affair," he said "my fault! It was not a fair place to fight. Why did I strike?
Lawrence to open, and go to Brazil, and in the morning must go back to Quebec. But in the morning he felt so much better that he decided to keep on to Chicoutimi. He could not bear the thought of being found out by detectives at Quebec, and by reporters who would fill the press with paragraphs about him. He must die to the world, to his family, before he could hope to revisit either.
In the morning his fever was gone; but he was weak, and he could not command his mind, could not make it stay by him long enough to decide whether any harm would come from remaining over a day before he pushed on to Chicoutimi.
Northwick understood this too little to believe it; when he talked, he talked business; even the jokes among the men he was used to meant business. "Then you haven't really found any gold in the hills?" he asked, slyly. "My faith, yes!" said Bird. "But," he added sadly, "perhaps it would not pay to mine it. I will show you when you get up. Better not go to Chicoutimi to-day! It is snowing."
"It was the Ma'm'selle Meelair, that young lady, not very young, but active like the youngest, the one that I conducted down the Grande Decharge to Chicoutimi last year, after you had gone away. She said that she knew m'sieu' intimately. No doubt you have a good remembrance of her?" I admitted an acquaintance with the lady.
And with the addition to be made from the tobacco not smoked during the past month, it would amount to more than twenty-three piastres; and all as safe in the cigar-box as if it were in the bank at Chicoutimi! That reflection seemed to fill the empty pipe with fragrance.
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