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On beholding Cheenbuk standing there unbound, Idazoo stopped short, drew back, and gazed at him in alarm as well as surprise. "You have now seen the strange sight I spoke of, but you must not tell it in the lodges," said Adolay. Without answering her, Idazoo turned to fly, but Adolay grasped her by the wrist and held her tight at the same time motioning with her hand to Cheenbuk.
A hurried council was held, and a good deal of distracting advice given while the young braves were arming themselves. To add to their perplexities, a lad rushed suddenly into the council-tent with glaring eyes, saying that the girl Idazoo had disappeared from the village.
Alizay steered the other, and the rest of the braves returned to the village to gloat over the news that Idazoo had to tell, to feast on the produce of the previous day's hunt, and to clear or obfuscate their intellects, more or less, with their tobacco-pipes.
As we have seen, she met her friend, not unexpectedly, on the way. "I will go with you," she said, "to see this strange thing, whatever it be. There may be danger; two are better than one, and, you know, I am not easily frightened." Poor Adolay was dismayed by this proposition, and hurried forward, but Idazoo kept pace with her.
For instance, there's the young brave Alizay, an' that pleasant craitur Idazoo, that's thinkin' about marriage just now; an' there's Magadar and Cowlik, and Oolalik and Nootka, and Ondikik and Rinka, and Anteek and young Uleeta; an' I'm not sure that there may not be some more of you in the same case. If so, all right; the more the merrier.
A fresh though silent dropping of tears occurred here, and a severe pang of remorse shot through the heart of Idazoo as she thought of her unkind report of what had taken place beside the dead tree under the cliff.
It was faint, and so far away that at first they could make nothing of it. A few seconds later it was repeated louder than before. Then a look of intelligence broke over Adolay's countenance. "I know!" she exclaimed, "Idazoo is shrieking! We should have put the cloth over her nose! She has got her mouth free and " Another sharp yell rendered it needless for her to complete the sentence.
Yet I fear to go back, for that Idazoo will tell, and perhaps they will kill me for helping you to escape." "Then you must not go back," said the Eskimo stoutly. "Come with me and I will take good care of you." "No, I cannot," returned the girl thoughtfully; I cannot forsake my mother and father in such a way without even a word at parting. "What is your name?" asked the youth promptly.
Idazoo wore round her neck a brightly coloured cotton kerchief, such as the fur-traders of those days furnished for barter with the Indians. Cheenbuk quietly plucked this off her neck and tied it firmly round her face and mouth so as to effectually gag her. This done they fastened her to the stem of the dead tree.
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