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Updated: May 16, 2025
Owen looked at them in amazement he had at the most anticipated that those whose encouraging shouts had reached his ears while in the water must be some timber-cruisers who chanced to be camping at the foot of the rapids for the fishing to be found there; or it might be several of the halfbreed voyageurs employed by the Hudson Bay Company to carry furs from far distant posts to some station on the railroad; but he found himself gazing upon neither.
"But Conrad only got down there; I saw him." Torrance squinted sternly at the halfbreed. Mavy nodded. "I come by the trestle." "The h you did!" The halfbreed shrugged his shoulders. The contractor examined him with renewed interest. "How'd you like to be an underforeman?" Again the wide, sloping shoulders shrugged. "Say, you don't mean you'd turn down an extra dollar a day?"
"Had a good trip?" hazarded the big man carelessly. "Pretty fair." "Pretty rough country up there?" Manson waved his arm northwest. Fisette grunted. "About the same over there." He glanced into the northeast. "Been rooting about for over a year now, haven't you?" The halfbreed grinned. "Since I was so high." He indicated a stature of two feet. "Come far this time?"
In among the trees he led, though not far from the grade, and when at last he stopped and began to rustle among the leaves and dead boughs, Blue Pete knew he had reached the end of the trail. Yet even as the man worked feverishly the halfbreed visualised the spot; and he knew no great cache could be there. It puzzled him, alarmed him.
As she came she had seen Indians gliding through the woods with their purchases, and now the shop was clearing fast, in response to the urging of Dingan and his partner, a Scotch half-breed. It was evident that Dingan was at once abstracted and excited. Presently only two visitors were left, a French halfbreed call Lablache, a swaggering, vicious fellow, and the captain of the steamer, Ste.
The Sergeant's fancy for the prairie girl had been but the reaching out of his fine nature for the beautiful, where so little of the beautiful existed. His marriage to Mira's Eastern-trained cousin had spelled the end of that. What the halfbreed dare not face was the discovery by the Police that he whom they thought dead was alive.
But we got away at 7 next day my four men and the tug's three. At the wheel was a halfbreed David MacPherson who is said to be a natural-born pilot, and the best in the country.
We've got a halfbreed doing chores for us, but he has to be looked after or he neglects things. I'll not get another chance to come very soon, I'm afraid; mommie hates to have me ride around much in the winter. You send for that nephew right away, why don't you, Marthy?" It was like Billy Louise to mix command and entreaty together. "Really, I don't think Jase looks a bit well."
He passed thoughtfully through the general office, noting as he closed the door that on a bench near Clark's door sat Fisette, a French halfbreed whom he knew. He remarked also that Fisette's pockets were bulging, it seemed, with rocks. A moment later Fisette was summoned. He went in, treading lightly on the balls of his feet, and leaning forward as though under a load on a portage.
"How dare you ask us to have as our leader a halfbreed North-West Indian, who is the son of your father's cook?" "Yes, he is the son of my father's cook, and if I ever get the chance I'll cook for him on my knees cook for him and serve him; he saved my life and nearly lost his own while you, Shorty, a far better swimmer, would have let me drown like a dog."
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