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"Dechamp, he promise to sole me a horse, an' Mrs Davis'n will loan me a cart," returned the half-breed, with lofty independence. "Hm! an' you will be returnin' the cart an' payin' for the horse when the hunt is over, I suppose?"
Okematan and Jacques Bourassin here stepped forward, but none of the others seemed disposed to undertake the tramp. "There iss enough of us whatever," remarked the Highlander as he and the others put some provisions into their wallets and shouldered their guns. "You will be our leader, Antoine Dechamp.
They set him up in a sitting posture with his back against a box, and his feet towards the fire. Heaving a deep sigh, Fergus looked round with a bewildered, anxious expression. In a moment intelligence returned to his eyes, and he made a violent attempt to rise, but Dechamp held him down. "Let me up!" he gasped, "life and death are in the matter if it iss not death already "
In accordance with the assurance given to Okematan Antoine Dechamp at once gave orders to make preparation for an immediate start after the buffalo much to the satisfaction of the hunters, especially the young ones.
If he had shot himself he must have pulled the trigger with his toe, an' then the ball would have slanted up from his breast to somewhere about his shoulders." "It was a Saulteaux, may be," said Slowfoot, who had been listening with all the eagerness of a gossip. "There were no marks of Redskins' snow-shoes about," returned Dechamp, "an' the tracks were too confused to make them out.
The Sergts. are relieved and exempt from all labour of making fires, pitching tents or cooking, and will direct and make the men of their several messes perform an equal propotion of those duties. The guard shall hereafter consist of one sergeant and six privates & engages. Patroon, Dechamp, Copl.
Accordingly, Duncan junior mounted his horse, and accompanied Dan, Peter, Fergus, Okematan, Morel, Jenkins, and others to the plains, where they found that the main body of the hunters, under Antoine Dechamp, had arrived just before them.
Of course, Slowfoot was with him amiable, meek, and silent as ever. And so was Baby La Certe, a five-year-old by that time, and obviously a girl with a stronger penchant than ever for tobacco! "The buffalo have been found already," said Dechamp to Dan Davidson, as the latter rode into camp at the head of his party.
"I'm sure it's Dechamp. I'd know him a mile off," said Archie. "Ay, an' they hev got sight o' the smoke of our fire, too," added Fergus. "It is Dechamp," said Okematan, decisively, as he stepped into the open and held up his hand to the new arrivals. A cheer was raised by those in the canoes when the Cree chief was recognised, and the flotilla, coming on at full speed, soon reached the bank.
Thus summarily dismissed, this hanger-on or camp-follower returned to his pork and pipe with a feeling that somehow he had failed to make the exact impression on the leader that he desired. La Certe, however, consoled him, and helped him to continue the duties of the day. "Come with me, McKay," said Dechamp, after giving all needful directions regarding the safety of the camp.
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