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She obediently wheeled her horse; and searched the turf again; riding around them in wide fanlike sweeps, while Garth waited with a deadly patience. At last she struck off to the northwest, calling to them, and Garth and Charley spurred after. "'Erbe't, Mary and her, go this way," she said briefly, as they came up. "Nick Grylls take six horse west, and Xavier take four by coulée."
"'Erbe't," she whispered, with infinite, passionate desire in her voice stroking his cheek, "will you teach me to be a lady?" He laughed. "You 'tend to your work about the place," he said, "and don't bother your head over that." Tears slowly welled up in Rina's eyes, and stole one after another down her cheeks. "I do so ver' moch want to be a lady," she whispered, more to herself than to him.
An' you talk so pretty, and know so much, my heart him fly straight out of my breast like a bird, 'Erbe't; an' perch on your shoulder; an' him go everywhere you go; an' I got no heart any more. I empty lak a nest in the snow-time!
'E say " Rina's voice sunk very low "'Let him help me get her, and I'll keep her, all right!" Garth frowned and clenched his fists. His gorge rose intolerably, at the thought of this precious pair contending which was to have Natalie. Rina went on: "Nick Grylls say to 'Erbe't, mustn't let her get out of the country. He say 'If she go out she divorce you." Rina pronounced the word strangely.
Natalie immediately came forward, offering her hand. Rina clung to it without speaking, turning away her head to hide welling tears. "Where did you meet these people?" Garth asked her. "On the prairie," she answered, low-voiced. "Yesterday, noon spell. They coming this way. Nick Grylls, him mak' moch friend with 'Erbe't, and 'Erbe't, him glad.
"Did they refuse to take you along?" he asked. The stolid brown face was twisted with pain again. She lowered her head, and clung to the horn of her saddle. "No," she said very low. "They 'fraid to leave me be'ind. But they don' want me. And I want to die when I see 'Erbe't with her. They all glad when t'ink I to die!" Garth forbore to question her further.
He did not know she wept, she was so still. By and by she raised her head, and shook the tears away. "To-morrow, I will begin to fix things nice for you, 'Erbe't," she said with renewed, soft tenderness. He vented his hopeless, jeering chuckle. "Nice!" he echoed. "My God, Rina! What are you going to begin on?" "I show you!" she said eagerly.
Her breast was heaved on hard, quick pants like a wounded animal's; and her eyes were as frantic, and as inhuman. "'Erbe't, who am I?" she breathed. Mabyn, seeing that Natalie heard and understood, beside himself, and reckless with rage, flung out his arm, throwing her heavily to the ground. "You! damn you!" he cried. "You're just my "
Rina gravely laid her own in it, and let him wag it up and down. This form of binding an agreement she knew. Still she had not committed herself to anything; and Garth paused, determined to make her speak before he went on. She favoured him at last with a walled glance purely savage. "Let 'Erbe't go off the island," she said indifferently.
I go no more to the breeds. I spik only Engliss now; we will sit in chairs and eat pretty with knives and forks; and always say good morning and good night, lak white people. 'Erbe't, you will teach me all the ways of white people, lak they do outside? I want so bad to be ver' nice, jus' lak white woman!" "Sure!" said Mabyn vaguely. Rina was silent for a while.
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