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"You will always keep well out of sight in advance of us," said Gartok to this scout, "and the first sight you get of the Fire-spouters, shove in to some quiet place, land, haul up your kayak, and creep near them through the bushes as quietly and cleverly as if you were creeping up to a bear or a walrus. Then come back and tell us what you have seen.
As he spoke Raventik was seen sweeping into view from behind a point in the middle of the most rapid part of the river, and plying his long paddle with the intense energy of one whose life depends on his exertions. The Eskimos on the knoll gazed in breathless anxiety. A few minutes later the canoe of Magadar swept into view. "The Fire-spouters!" exclaimed Ondikik. "Three men in it!" cried Gartok.
"The kayak is indeed that of a Fire-spouter," said old Mangivik, shaking his grey head, "but I don't think any Fire-spouter among them would be such a fool as to run his head into our very jaws." "I'm not ready to agree with you, old man," began Gartok. "No; you're never ready to agree with any one!" growled Mangivik parenthetically.
While thus engaged he saw with some anxiety that Gartok had become deadly pale, and his compressed lips gave the impression that he was suffering much. "Come here," said Cheenbuk to the boy quickly; "rub his hands and make them warm." The boy obeyed with alacrity, while the other, hastening his movements, began to skin the bear.
This is not the first time that we have hunted together." The boy said nothing, but regarded his friend with a look of gratified pride, while he grasped his spear more firmly. "Good," returned Gartok, in a resigned tone; "I will stand by to help if there is need." Nothing more was said, but Cheenbuk looked at Anteek and gave the brief order "Go!" The boy knew well what to do.
Gartok was insensible, and it was a considerable time before he fully recovered consciousness. Then it was found that he could not rise, and that the slightest motion gave him intolerable pain. "He will die!" exclaimed Anteek, with a look of painful anxiety. "Yes, he will die if we do not quickly get him home," said Cheenbuk. "He cannot walk, and he would freeze long before we could make an igloe.
"Yes, Gartok will get himself killed at last," said old Uleeta, drawing her finger across the frizzling steak and licking it, for her appetite was sharp-set and she was impatient, "He was always a stubborn boy." "But he is strong, and a good fighter," remarked Rinka, as she spread a seal-skin boot over her knee with the intention of patching it.
He has made you, and if He lets you die now, utterly, He destroys you in your best days. Is it not more likely that He is calling you to some other land where there is work for you to do?" "I don't understand. I do not know," replied Gartok, somewhat doggedly.
The Jong Pen has been called upon to restore the missing articles. He urges that the affair did not occur in his district, and that he is in no way responsible for the loss of the property. He has, however, promised to try to recover them, alleging that the affair has been reported to a superior authority at Gartok.
"Raventik must have found our enemies," said Gartok to Ondikik, his lieutenant, as he led his men up the slope. "That is certain," returned Ondikik, "and from the noise they are making, I think the Fire-spouters are many. But this is a good place to fight them." "Yes, we will wait here," said Gartok.
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