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"It's all that's left of a good outfit!" A chilly twilight had fallen by the time the castaways arrived at the encampment above the rapids. Kirby and his daughter were shaking from the cold. The Countess Courteau hurried on ahead to start a fire in her tent, and thither she insisted upon taking Rouletta, while her men attended to the father's comfort.
"Then we must tell the colonel to look them up." But Doret's brows remained puckered in thought. "Wait!" he exclaimed. "I got idea of my own. If dem feller kill Courteau dey ain't nowheres roun' here. Dey beat it, firs' t'ing." "To Hunker? Perhaps " "No. For de Boun'ry." 'Poleon slapped his thigh in sudden enlightenment. "By golly! Dat's why I don' see 'em no place. You stay here. I mak' sure."
If you're still here three weeks from now you may be able to help me." Then she joined the procession up the gang- plank. But the hotel-keeper halted her. "Fifteen is a go!" he said, angrily. The Countess Courteau stepped back out of the line. "Very well. Make out the bill of sale. I'll meet you at Healy & Wilson's in ten minutes." A moment later she smiled at Pierce and heaved a sigh of relief.
Better you dress light an' buckle up dat belt, for I got reason to fin' out who keel Courteau. I ain't goin' sleep no more till I know." The officer smiled as he declared: "That suits me exactly. We may not catch them, but they'll know they've been in a race before they thumb their noses at us from across the Boundary. Now see how fast you can harness up."
It must be so, otherwise he would never have summoned the strength to snap those chains which bound him to the Countess Courteau, or the reckless courage to embark upon an enterprise so foreign to his tastes and to his training as this one.
He spat on his hands and settled himself in his seat, then cried, "Well, lead your ace!" As the little craft moved out into the stream, Pierce Phillips noticed that the Kirby scow, which had run the Courteau boats a close race all the way from Linderman, was just pulling into the bank.
They paid Courteau well for his part or they promised to and he perjured himself, as did they. Hilda got the truth out of him while he was drunk. Of course he denied it later, but she broke him down, and this evening, just before we got home, he promised to go to Colonel Cavendish and make a clean breast of everything.
The whole four miles is a place of many voices, a thundering place that numbs the senses and destroys all hearing. Its tumult is heard afar and it covers the entire region like a blanket. The weight of that sound is oppressive. Winter was at the heels of the Courteau party when it arrived at this point in its journey; it brought up the very tail of the autumn rush and the ice was close behind.
Nothing was said as the two trod the snow-banked streets; not until they halted at the door of the Courteau House did Rouletta speak; then she said: "I wouldn't have let you do this, only I have! a temper." "So have I," Pierce said, shortly. "It's humiliating to own up." "I was wrong. I have no right to hurt that girl's feelings." "Right?" He laughed angrily. "She had no right to make a scene."
I am a different Courteau than you ever knew. I've had my rebirth. Now then, our present mode of life is not pleasing to me, for I'm a fellow of spirit. Think of me in the attitude of a dependent!" "I share generously with you. I give you money " "The very point, he broke in, excitedly. "You give; I accept. You direct; I obey. It must end now, at once.
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