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"It was not that," repeated the woman. She attempted to stroke his face, but Cummins saw nothing of the effort, for the hand lay all but motionless. He saw nothing of the fading softness that glowed in the big, loving eyes, for his own eyes were blinded by a hot film. And the woman saw nothing of the hot film, so torture was saved them both.
He had done this a thousand times, and Melisse knew what it meant a kiss and a joyous toss halfway to the ceiling. She jumped from her stool and ran to him; but this time, instead of hoisting her above his head, he hugged her up close to his breast, and buried his face in her soft hair. His eyes looked over her in triumph to Cummins. "Up, Jan, up 'way up!" cried Melisse.
Up to this time nobody has mentioned it; and I hate to be the first to speak of it." Everybody's interest was aroused. After a pause Mat continued: "When the robber was going over the baggage he came to Mr. Cummins' valise, and asked, 'Whose is this? One of the passengers spoke up and said, 'That belongs to Mr. Cummins. Then the row began." "Who is the guilty man?" cried Francis.
Deep into the wilderness he led the men who made the red and black lined maps. It was he who blazed out the northern limit of Banksian pine, and his name was in Government reports down in black and white so that Marie and all the world could read. One day he came back and he found Clarry O'Grady at the Cummins' cabin. He had been there for a month with a broken leg.
And Jeff Davis and the other criminals ought to have been hanged, just as those stage-robbers ought to be." "Don't you see, my friend," replied the minister, "that violence breeds violence?" "Then," rather scornfully, "you think Will Cummins did wrong to defend his property?" "He would have been alive to-day if he hadn't." "But that's not the point. Will Cummins died for a principle.
But the bystanders would not endure the doctrine. Their Anglo-Saxon blood recoiled. And a former Californian, who was an old friend of Cummins, stepped forward and said: "Mr. Lamb, Will Cummins was not afraid to perish with the sword. And, if he could have drawn that revolver, there would have been two dead robbers. This doctrine of non-resistance is wrong, dead wrong.
Mukee knew the trail to Churchill, and agreed to leave with him on the third day which gave Williams' wife time to make him a new coat of caribou skin. On the second evening he played for the last time in the little cabin; and after Melisse had fallen asleep he took her up gently in his arms and held her there for a long time, while Cummins looked on in silence.
So far back as he could remember, Cummins had never come into finger- touch of a white baby. Jan was as blissfully ignorant; so they determined upon immediate and strenuous action. Maballa would be ceaselessly watched and checked at every turn. The Indian children would not be allowed to come near Melisse.
In an instant he perceived the strange effect of his music, and his bow raced across the strings of his violin in a rhythm swift and buoyant, his voice rising shrill and clear in words familiar to them all: "Oh, ze cariboo-oo-oo, ze cariboo-oo-oo, He roas' on high, Jes' under ze sky, Ze beeg white cariboo-oo-oo!" With a yell Cummins joined in, waving his arms and leaping in the firelight.
Now and then a visitor came in from out of the forest, but he remained for only a day or two, taking back into the solitude with him a few of the necessaries of life. Williams was busy preparing his books for the coming of the company's chief agent from London, and Cummins, who was helping the factor, had a good deal of extra time on his hands.
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