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"Why run you so fast?" asked the girl, as Adolay stood panting before her. "Have you seen a bad spirit?" "But I cannot stop to tell you. I have to to go to see something very strange to-night." Now it must be told that Idazoo was gifted with a very large bump of curiosity, and a still larger one, perhaps, of suspicion.
None of the young men dared to touch him." "Was the young brave Alizay afraid to touch him?" asked the guide, with a sly glance at the younger woman. At this Idazoo flushed and looked up angrily. "No," she said sharply; "Alizay fears nothing." Bartong took no notice of the remark, but continued gravely to question the other. "Was Nazinred very fond of his daughter?" he asked. "Yes, very."
Then, as we all know, our Indian Alizay has for long been efter the girl Idazoo. There's no accountin' for taste, Tonal'. I would sooner be married to a ship's figure-head myself, but that's his look-out, whatever. I hev also observed 'deed it would be difficult not to observe that the man Oolalik iss castin' sheep's-eyes at that girl Nootka.
But she had not gone far, when, on turning a bush, she almost ran into the arms of a young Indian girl named Idazoo, an event which upset all her plans and perplexed her not a little all the more that this girl was jealous of her, believing that she was trying to steal from her the affections of Alizay, whom she regarded as her own young man!
The whole operation was performed without unnecessary rudeness, and with great celerity. "Now, Idazoo," said Adolay, when they had finished, "you have done me great injury this night. I am sorry to treat you in this way, but I cannot help it. You would come with me, you know.
Having questioned the old chief a little more on this point, he wandered off into other subjects, and finally left intending to visit the wife of Nazinred on his way back to camp. Isquay was sitting beside her niece Idazoo, embroidering a moccasin, when Bartong entered, squatted on a deerskin unceremoniously, and began to fill his pipe. "What kind of a man is your husband?" asked the guide.
Instantly the whole band turned and ran off in the direction mentioned Alizay being last, as he paused just long enough to cut the bonds of Idazoo, but left her to disentangle herself as she best could.
Isquay, Idazoo, and some of the other women were furnished with moose-deer skins and needles, and employed to make moccasins for the men, as well as to do all the needful repairs to garments.
The Eskimo was prompt as well as intelligent. He did not wait for explanations or allow surprise to delay him. With a bound he was beside the girls, had grasped Idazoo, and looked to Adolay for further instructions. "Hold her till I tie up her hands," she said, drawing a stout line of deerskin from a pocket in the breast of her dress.
There was no lack of guiding sounds now, for the moment Idazoo managed to clear her mouth of the gag she began and continued a series of shrieks and yells which were intensified in vigour by the fact that she gradually became hysterical as well as wrathful. The first to reach the spot was Alizay.
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