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"Is there any answer?" he asked. "No!" said Ambrose. The half-breed's curiosity overcame his prudence. "What are you going to do?" he asked slyly. Ambrose strode out of the store without answering. The two men paddled back to Grampierre's place in silence. Simon with native tact, forbore to ask questions.
Ambrose explained. "Bring all your things," said Tole. "You stay at our house now till you go back. My mot'er got good medicine. She cure mal de tête." Ambrose reflected bitterly that Mrs. Grampierre's simples could hardly reach his complaint. Nevertheless, he was not anxious to be left alone he was not one to nourish a sorrow.
By ten o'clock next morning he was within a mile or two of Grampierre's place. The river was dazzling in the morning sunlight, the air like wine. The poplar trees had put on their gorgeous autumn dress of saffron and scarlet, which showed like names against the chocolate colored hills. Suddenly in a grassy ravine on his right, Ambrose saw the "yellow" horse feeding.
Will you help us break our chains? Buy our grain?" An absolute silence followed Simon Grampierre's unexpected words. The astute old man had withheld his proposal until the psychological moment. Ambrose was a little dazed by it. He rose, feeling every eager eye upon him, and said slowly: "I must have a little time to consider. I must talk with Simon Grampierre.
Later in the day Watusk must have thought better of his surliness for he sent a polite message to Ambrose at Simon Grampierre's house, requesting him and Simon to come to a tea dance that night. He had borrowed Jack Mackenzie's house for the affair since no teepee was big enough to contain it. Mackenzie's was the first house west of the Kakisa encampment. "Tea-dance! Bah!
"They cannot put it over me unless I knuckle under," he thought. "They're afraid of me. No Indian that ever lived can face out a white man when the white man knows his power." Several dogs followed them out of camp. There was one that the others all snapped at and drove from among them. Ambrose suddenly recognized Job, and his heart leaped up. He had left him at Grampierre's the night before.
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