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Updated: June 13, 2025
Then there was a controversy with Napoleon Bouchard about the right to put a fish-house on a certain part of the beach: settled with a stick, after Napoleon had drawn a knife. Then there was a running warfare with Virgile and Ovide Boulianne, the free traders, who were his rivals in dealing with the Indians for their peltry: still unsettled.
Some big flakes and a fish-house were built over the water, on spidery legs. A few children, very stolid of face and unkempt, watched our arrival and stared at me. A man, in half-bared arms dotted about the wrists with remnants of what they call gurry-sores, stood at the water's edge, waiting to lend a hand. There appears to be no anchorage in this deep hole.
And he galloped on ahead, followed by Cato and Peter; so that, by reason of their dust, which we did not choose to choke in, Dorothy and I slackened our pace and fell behind. "Do you know why you are to pass by Broadalbin?" she asked, presently. I said I did not. "Folk at the Fish-House saw smoke on the Mayfield hills an hour since. That is twice in three days!" "Well," said I, "what of that?"
Elijah Tilley appeared to regard a stranger with scornful indifference. You might see him standing on the pebble beach or in a fish-house doorway, but when you came nearer he was gone.
This wagon-track runs into the Fish-House road." "How far are we from the manor?" I asked. "About two miles and a half, sir," replied Mount. "Doubtless some of Sir George Covert's horsemen heard our shots, and we'll meet 'em cantering out to investigate." I had not imagined we were as near as that. A painful thrill passed through me; my heart leaped, beating feverishly in my breast.
A dog barked Pat Kavanagh's black crackie and the whisper of the tide fumbling at edges of ice came up from the land-wash below the fish-house and drying-stages. He saw the spars of his little schooner etched black against the slate-gray of the eastern sky. He stood at the edge of the broken slope, looking and listening.
"I'll go for her," said Frank, "the moment Thurnall comes back to watch you." "What need to go yourself, sir? Old Sarah will go, and willing." Thurnall came in at that moment. "I am going to fetch Miss Harvey. Where is she, Captain?" "At Janey Headon's, along with her two poor children." "Stay," said Tom, "that's a bad quarter, just at the fish-house back. Have some brandy before you start?"
We went through windfalls like partridges; we crossed the hills like a herd o' deer in flight! We ran as though the devil were snapping at our shanks! I'm half dead, thank you and my shins! you should see where that razor-boned nag of mine shaved bark enough off the trees with me to start every tannery between the Fish-House and Half-moon!"
Si picked Ethel up in his strong arms and carried her into the fish-house. He placed her on one of the low benches and hurriedly began to kindle a fire. Ethel sat up dazedly and pushed back the dripping masses of her bright hair. Young Si turned and looked down at her with a passionate light in his eyes. She put out her cold, wet hands wistfully. "Oh, Miles!" she whispered.
A padlock and chain were put on the door of the fish-house, everything that could be locked up was carefully made fast; then Katherine and Miles set themselves to the task of keeping their eyes open to find out who had stolen the lard.
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