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The owner was still sitting at the door, an odd little bundle in a blanket, as Bela approached. "I t'ink you come soon," he said. These two always conversed in English. "You know everyt'ing," stated Bela simply. He shrugged. "I just sit quiet, and my thoughts speak to me." She dropped on her knees before him, and rested sitting on her heels, hands in lap.
"Can't spec' for to have everyt'ing jus' like de white folks," said the old woman. "We's no right to 'spect it. But Uncle Darry, he sot a sight by his praise-meetin'. He's cur'ous, he is. S'pose Darry's cur'ous." "And does anybody say that you shall not have prayer- meetings?" "Laws, honey! What's we got to do wid praise-meetin's or any sort o' meetin's? We'se got to work.
"An' you needn't t'ink I ain't," asserted the Flopper. "But I can't stop de town fallin' over itself to bring de whole farmyard, an' eggs, an' butter, an' flour, an' everyt'ing else out here every mornin', can I? She's blown in twice wid cream fer de Patriarch." "What's her name?" inquired Madison quizzically. "Mamie Rodgers," said the Flopper. "She says her old man keeps a store in de village."
He got everyt'ing else. They ask my fat'er w'at to do." Tole went on: "Always my fat'er say: 'Wait, he say. 'We got get white man on our side. We got get white man who knows all outside ways. He bring an outfit in and trade wit' us. The people don't want to wait. 'We starve! they say. "My fat'er say: 'Non! Gaviller not let you starve. For why, because you not bring him any fur if you dead.
Eef you say you not care a dam to go to jail, so you can put him there, too, becos' you have not'ing, an' so dam seeck of everyt'ing, he will t'ink ten t'ousan' dollar same as one cent to Nic Dupont ben sur!" Lygon nodded his head, still holding his hands to the blaze.
I can't let you sacrifice too much." "Poor?" The pilot opened his eyes in amazement. "Mon Dieu! I'm reech feller. Anybody is reech so long he's well an' happy. Mebbe I sell my claim." "Your claim? Have you a claim? At Dawson?" The man nodded indifferently. "I stake him las' winter. He's pretty claim to look at plenty snow, nice tree for cabin, dry wood, everyt'ing but gold.
"I didn't tell everyt'ing. Besides disa man Hennessy he say cuta da wage, an' send for odders take your job, he tella da biga boss you no worka good, so da biga boss he no pay you for all da last mont'!" The ignorantly credulous Poles uttered a shout of rage. Several cried: "Keel him! Keel him!" Alex, in the loft, drew back in terror. "No! Dere bettera way dan dat," said Tony.
Lablache shook back his long hair, and rolled about in his pride. "I give him cash for his share to-night some one is behin' me, sacré, yes! It is worth so much, I pay and step in I take the place over. I take half the business here, and I work with Dingan's partner. I take your horses, Dingan, I take your lodge, I take all in your lodge everyt'ing."
It was a look that came into Dingan's face whenever Breaking Rock crossed his path, or when one or two other names were mentioned in his presence, for they were names of men who had spoken of Mitiahwe lightly, and had attempted to be jocular about her. As Mitiahwe looked at him, now unknown to himself, she was conscious of what that last word of Lablache's meant. Everyt'ing meant herself.
They found a small Italian restaurant, free of local-color hounds and what Carl called "hobohemians," and discovered fritto misto and Chianti and zabaglione a pale-brown custard flavored like honey and served in tall, thin, curving glasses while the fat proprietress, in a red shawl and a large brooch, came to ask them, "Everyt'ing all-aright, eh?"
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