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He could see the Girl and Hauck and now the girl was standing alone, looking at him. She had seen him! She had seen him beat that giant beast, and a great pride rose in his breast and spread in a joyous light over his bloody face. Suddenly he lifted his hand and waved it at her. In a flash she was coming to him. She would have broken her way through the cordon of men, but Hauck stopped her.
"At 150 yards it should be good for a man," he said. "You get Tara and the pack inside, Marge. I'm going to try to get two or three of our friends as they come up over the knoll down there. They won't be looking for bullets this early in the game and I'll have them at a disadvantage. If I'm lucky enough to get Hauck and Brokaw...."
She shuddered. "Nisikoos and I overheard them one night. Hauck was selling a girl for a little sack of gold like that. Nisikoos held me more tightly than ever, that night. I don't know why. She was terribly afraid of that man Hauck. Why did she live with him if she was afraid of him? Do you know? I wouldn't. I'd run away." He shook his head. "I'm afraid I can't tell you, my child."
We can wait here until morning...." "I can climb it," she cried, with an excitement which he had not seen in her before. "I can climb it and travel all night to tell Brokaw and Hauck I don't belong to them any more, and that we're going away! Brokaw will be like a mad beast, and before we go I'll scratch his eyes out!" "Good Lord!" gasped David under his breath.
He saw the dark bulk of Tara rising out of the gloom, and the Girl was at his side. "We are ready, Sakewawin." He spoke to her the thought that had been shaping itself in his mind. "Why wouldn't it be better to join Wapi and his Indians?" he asked, remembering Brokaw's words. "Because they are afraid of Hauck," she replied quickly.
"Hauck sent me to wake you up for the fun. You've got just time to swallow your breakfast before we put on the big scrap the scrap I told you about last night, when I was drunk. Head-over-heels drunk, wasn't I? Took you for a friend I knew. Funny. You don't look a dam' bit like him!" David shook hands with him.
In return for the loss of the girl they should have his promise his oath, if necessary not to reveal the secret of the traffic in which they were engaged, or of that still more important affair between Hauck and the white man from Fort MacPherson. He was certain that, in his drunkenness, Brokaw had spoken the truth, no matter what he might deny to-morrow.
He thought Hauck looked like an exultant gargoyle as he stood there with a horrible grin on his face, and Brokaw.... It was Brokaw who bent over him, his thick fingers knotting, his open eyes fairly livid. "I'm glad you ain't dead, Raine." His voice was husky, muffled by the swollen thickness of his battered lips. "Thanks," said David.
A man stood up within seventy yards of the cabin a moment later, firing as fast as he could pump the lever of his gun, and David drove one of Nisikoos' partridge-killers straight into his chest. He fired a second time at Hauck another miss! Then he flung the useless rifle to the floor as he sprang back to Marge. "Got one. Five left. Now damn 'em let then come!" He drew Hauck's revolver.
When they were all out to see Wapi off, I struck her over the head with the end of Nisikoos' rifle. Maybe she is dead. Tara is out there. I know where to find him when it is dark. I will make up a pack and within an hour we must go. If Hauck comes to your room before then, or Brokaw, kill him with the knife, Sakewawin! If you don't they will kill you!"
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