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He tramped around gaily in his moccasins or on the fancy snowshoes he promptly purchased of Injin Charley. There was nothing new to report in regard to financial matters. The loan had been negotiated easily on the basis of a mortgage guaranteed by Carpenter's personal signature. Nothing had been heard from Morrison & Daly.
"Go 'way." "Nonsense, Bob. I want you to stay with me to-night, come." "Injin squaw no good for waugee woman. Go 'way." "Listen, Bob. You are daughter of a chief: so am I. Your father had many warriors: so has mine. It is good that you stay with me. Come." The Princess chuckled and suffered herself to be lifted up. A few moments later and they re-entered the hut, hand in hand.
They steal away unnoticed by the authorities, and engage in thieving, and, when the chances are favorable against detection, commit graver crimes. "That Injin that come into the timber last night was a sort of dog Injin that had come down from the Wind River Reservation to find out what he could steal." The boys looked at each other in astonishment.
So says I to my comrade who had been looking at me for some time as if he thought that a cut off my shoulder wouldn't be a bad thing says I, `Nipitabo, I'm afeard the shoes must go for it now; so with that I pulls out a pair o' deerskin moccasins. `They looks tender, said I, trying to be cheerful. `Wah! said the Injin; and then I held them over the fire till they was done black, and Nipitabo ate one, and I ate the tother, with a lump o' snow to wash it down!"
White chief" and he pointed in the direction of the Fort, "no let me." "Ugh!" exclaimed the Indian, his stern features again brightening up with a last hope. "'Spose come with Injin?"
But, yees don't pant or blow a bit, so I can't think ye're too much tired." "Too dark can't see wait till sun." "Oh, begorrah! I didn't understand ye. The Injin 'l' git a good start on us, won't he though?" "Ain't Injin white man!" "A white man, does ye say, that run off wid Miss Cora?" Two of the Indians replied in the affirmative.
But he's an Injin, sure. No wonder he prefers to live in the woods." "Well?" said Nellie. "Well," echoed her father impatiently, "he's an Injin, I tell you, and you can't of course have anything to do with him. He mustn't come here again." "But you forget," said Nellie imperturbably, "that it was you who invited him here, and were so much exercised over him.
'Come out of that, says I, 'and tell me if dead or alive I am. He got up, and there was the noise soft and grand again, but with it now the voices of men, the flip of birds' wings and the sighin' of tree tops, and behind all that the long wash of a sea like none I ever heard.... 'Well, says I to the Injin grinnin' before me, 'what's that, in the name o' Moses? 'That, says he, laughin' slow in me face, 'is the Tall Master him that brought you to the camp. Thin I remimbered all the things that's been said of him, and I knew it was music I'd been hearin' and not children's voices nor anythin' else at all.
Say, boys," he continued, turning to his followers, "let him have the Injin. I guess he's earned him." So saying he wheeled, the men with him, and they tramped up the slope again on their way back to Viking. The man who had achieved this turned upon the fishers. "Back to your homes!" he said. "Be thankful that blood was not shed here to-night, and let this be a lesson to you. Now, go."
"I thought so about ten o'clock this morning," Thorpe replied. "Suppose you hadn't stumbled on their camp; suppose Injin Charley hadn't seen them go up-river; suppose you hadn't struck that little mill town JUST at the time you did!" marvelled Wallace. "That's always the way," philosophized Thorpe in reply. "It's the old story of 'if the horse-shoe nail hadn't been lost, you know.
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