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Suddenly I was aware of Da Costa's presence and turned. His unease was manifest and held, it seemed to me, a queer, furtive anxiety. "What you think of Olaf, sair?" he asked. I shrugged my shoulders. "You think he killed his woman and his babee?" He went on. "You think he crazee and killed all?" "Nonsense, Da Costa," I answered. "You saw the boat was gone.
"What sort of beasts have you got out there anyway?" said the doctor, facing the Chief abruptly. "Him drink bad whisky," answered the Chief, tipping up his hand. "Him crazee," touching his head with his forefinger. "Crazy! Well, I should say. What they want is a few ounces of lead." The Chief made no reply, but stood with his eyes turned admiringly upon Moira's face.
But in the shadow hate blazed unseen from her eyes. She did not speak, and so he went back to his first charge. "All this don't tell me moch," he complained. "Yoh lov' him, maybe? That's what I ask." "Wagalexa Conka my brother, my father, my friend," she replied calmly, and let him interpret it as he would. "He treats yoh like a dog. He crazee 'bout that Jean.
Ol' time we use that Tahiti cologne. Girl put that on pareu an' on dress, by an' by make whole body jus' like flower. That set man crazee; make all man want kiss an' hug."
Oh, no-no-no, don' look like that, I'm not crazee." Her deft hands had got the knife, but she tossed it into the work-basket: "Ah, Hilary Kincaid, oft-en we love where we thing we do not, and oft-en thing we love where we do not " He would not hear: "Oh, Flora Valcour! You smother me in my own loathing oh, God send that gun!" The four hands still strove. "Hilary, list-en me yet a moment. See me.
The Portuguese had picked himself up, whimpering with rage and knife in hand, but as Huldricksson's voice reached him he stopped. Amazement crept into his eyes and as he thrust the blade back into his belt they softened with pity. "Something veree wrong wit' Olaf," he murmured to me. "I think he crazee!" And then Olaf Huldricksson began to curse us.
In a few words he made known the condition of affairs at his camp, and the old men agreed readily enough. With undisguised relief they clambered stiffly out of their boat and followed the French Canadian up the trail. As they toiled up the slope 'Poleon explained: "De doctor he's go to Dawson, an' t'ree day dis gal been layin' seeck crazee in de head.
Cortlandt queried, incredulously. "God!" "That's the fellow yonder." Kirk pointed to Alfarez, whose smile had disappeared. "Oh, the man is mistake'," the latter hastened to aver. "He is crazee." "I gave you a wetting in public, and " "Si, si! That is correc', Senor Cortlan'. He insolt my person an' fight my soldiers. He is ver' toff person." "Did you know he had been maltreated in prison?"
She turned away and walked over to where Sam and Kitty were erecting a little lean-to in the midst of a small thicket of fir and spruce trees. "Sam, I want you to do something for those people," she at once began. "They are starving." "White man all sam' crazee," the Indian replied. "Camp bad, ugh!" "I know that, Sam, so you must show them how to build good ones like your lodge by the lake.
"We're hitched up and ready to say 'gid-dap, but we came back to see how Letty's getting along," the former explained. 'Poleon shook his head doubtfully; his face was grave. "She's bad seeck." "Does she know about old Sam?" "She ain't know not'in'. She's crazee altogether. Poor li'l gal, she's jus' lak baby. I'm scare' as hell."
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