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To the north and west all was ice, and in neither direction could either see any signs of the presence of man. To the southward the pack seemed more open, and as they watched, they saw the leads grow wider, and the pools becoming more frequent. "We are passing the islands fast," said Regnar, "and by to-morrow will be well to the south-east of Deadman's Island.
Casey crossed Death Valley and the Funeral Mountains or a spur of them and headed up toward Spectre Range, going by way of Deadman's Spring, where he filled his water cans. That does not sound cheerful, but Casey was still fairly happy, though there were moments when he thought seriously of killing William with a rock.
"That's as it may be," replied the woman, "this wood belongs to me and to my sons, Nathaniel and Patrick, and to our dogs, Cinder and Flinder, and those what goes through Deadman's Copse must pay toll to me, the wife of Micah Jones. My husband is dead, and he left the wood to me, and them as go through it must pay toll."
Yes, my poor boy, this man, to whom God led your wandering feet at Deadman's Gulch; the man who brought you here, and by some secret hold I know not what on Don Juan's past, persuaded him to assume to be your relation; this man Flynn, this Jackson Brant the gambler, this Hamilton Brant the outlaw WAS YOUR FATHER! Ah, yes!
Lost two of our best men, scalped at Bloody Creek, and had to drop a dozen redskins in their tracks, me and another man, lyin' flat in er wagon and firin' under the flaps o' the canvas. I don't know ez they waz wuth it," he added in gloomy retrospect; "but I've got to get rid of 'em, I reckon, somehow, afore I work over to Deadman's Gulch again."
"Are we under the lee of Amherst Island?" asked Regnar, in a voice which all could hear. La Salle's answer came below his breath, and only Regnar heard, or could comprehend its meaning: "The dead are the defence of the living, and we are under the lee of Deadman's Berg."
"The keenest eye among the hunters of the Mistassini could not uncover that trail; and known to God and us alone is the bloody mystery of the Deadman's Berg." "Don't talk of that again, Regnie. Let the dead rest. Perhaps it may yet transpire that he was penitent at the last, and you may have good reason to rejoice that you knelt beside his last bed, in a tomb so wondrously beautiful."
The gusts were so furious that prudence demanded a camp, and it was eagerly sought for in the region of ominous name and gloomy associations. I had been told that there was but one living man in this bay, which is more than twenty miles wide. This settler lived two miles up the Steinhatchee River, which flows into the bight of Deadman's Bay.
'And you ran away and left him? 'Not quite that. He and grandpapa went out about some business to the copse at Deadman's Hollow, I think. They didn't want my advice they never do; so I came to see you, Mrs Wilson. By this time I had been able to look at the girl. She was a year or two older than myself, I thought, and the loveliest creature I had ever seen.
And again, in his rhymed prologue, he shall assign some of the glory of the siege of Doubting Castle to his favourite Valiant-for-the- Truth, who did not meet with the besiegers till long after, at that dangerous corner by Deadman's Lane.
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