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With that strange contract, his embarrassment seemed to vanish and his English came back fluently. "You'd better leave before the warriors return," he said. "They come home to-morrow!" "Is Diable among them?" "No." "Is Diable here?" "No." His face clouded as I questioned. "Do you know where he is?" "No." "Will he be back?" "Dammie! How do I know? He will if he wants to!
"Throw it out of the window," said I, ignoring his question and shoving him off. "Whish ish the window dammie?" he asked, holding the bottle irresolutely and looking in befuddled distraction from side to side of the room. "Thur both windows fur as I see," said the man, who had been sober, but was no longer so. "Throw it through the back window! Folks comin' in at the door won't see it."
"The bottle will go through the window and it won't go through the mirror," I began. "Dammie I knew that," he snapped out, ready to weep. "Well you undo these things," nodding to the ropes about my arms, "and I'll find out which opens, and the one that opens is the window, and you can throw out the bottle."
"I can take you to her!" he whispered, his voice thrilling with suppressed emotion. "Le Grand Diable and the squaw have gone to the valley to set snares! And when I whistle, come out quickly! Mon Dieu! If you're caught, both our scalps go! Dammie! Louis is a fool. I take you to her; but I pay you back all the same!" "To whom?" The question throbbed with a rush to my lips.
A shout of returning hunters arose from the ravine, at which Louis bounded for the tent on a run, dashing inside breathlessly, I following close behind. "Stay you here, inside, mind! Mon Dieu! If you but show your face; 'tis two white men under one stone-pile! Louis Laplante is a fool dammie a fool to help you, his enemy, or any other man at his own risk."
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