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"And when you went back for her," Colina persisted, "didn't my mother run away north with you, against the wishes of her parents?" "Your mother was a saint!" cried Gaviller indignantly. "Certainly," said Colina coolly, "but not the psalm-singing kind. What do you expect of the child of such a couple?" "Not another word!" cried Gaviller, banging the table last refuge of outraged fathers.
"You must give me your word that no proceedings will be taken against the man I name unless I die. I will not die. When I get up I will attend to him." "I promise," said Giddings. After a brief pause Gaviller said: "I was shot by the breed known as Sandy Selkirk." Ambrose sharply caught his breath. A great light broke upon him.
"Half a mile below the English mission. I paddled up." "I'll walk to the edge of the bank with you," said Gaviller politely. As in nearly all company posts there was a flag-pole in the most conspicuous spot on the river-bank. It was halfway between Gaviller's house and the store. At the foot of the pole was a lookout-bench worn smooth by generations of sitters.
Doane and Mr. Gaviller left for the north by stage on the same day. They part company at Miwasa landing; the bride and groom continue north to Moultrie on Lake Miwasa, while Mr. Gaviller goes northwest to Fort Enterprise to settle his affairs, thence to his new post on Great Buffalo Lake. We learn that Mr. Doane is to run the post at Moultrie, while his partner, Mr.
Gaviller had it to use at the end of summer when the water ran low in the river. They managed to collect enough half-breeds for a crew; Masters ran the engine, and Captain Stinson piloted. Thus in order to send for help the little force had to rob itself of two of its best defenders. They got away in the middle of the afternoon.
Colina turned, presenting a sufficiently composed face to her father. "Oh," she said. "You were gone a long while. What was the matter with the bull?" She strolled to the sofa and sat down. Ambrose idly closed the book and sat down across the room from her. Gaviller glanced from one to another perhaps it was a little too well done. But his face instantly resumed its customary affability.
Ambrose nodded. "I knew you had dinner with Mr. Gaviller last night," the man went on, "but as you didn't drop in on us at the store to-day I supposed you had gone back. I didn't expect to find you here." He was fluent for one of his color too fluent the other man felt. Ambrose was sizing him up with interest. It finally came to him what the man's distinguishing quality was.
To our mind the welfare of the Indians is more important than profits." Mr. Gaviller was later found at the Royal George Hotel. Upon being shown the foregoing he did not hesitate to express an opinion of it. "Put not your trust in corporations!" he said. "I have given them thirty years of my life, my best years, and here I am turned out over night!
They both laughed at that. "He told Watusk that if John Gaviller died he, Strange, would settle all the trouble, and then the Company would make him the trader for good. He told Watusk that when he got to be trader he would soon fix Ambrose Doane, too. "Mr. Strange was always telling Watusk to tell the Kakisas that my father hated them, but that he, Strange, was their friend.
At Colina's appearance an odd murmur rippled over the crowd. Her beauty astonished them. She walked down the aisle of the court-room, pale, erect, and self-controlled. Captain Stinson and Cora followed her. The crowd observed her movements with breathless attention. All three were admitted within the rail. John Gaviller sat near the gate. He looked somewhat dazed.
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