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"If you run there," continued the seaman, with a look and tone of deep solemnity, "at the very toppest speed that you can do, and look round that ice-point, you will see " "What?" gasped Ippegoo excitedly for he was easily excited. "Something," returned Rooney mysteriously.
"Ippegoo," he said, at last breaking silence, "we must not be beaten." "No, that must not be," replied his pupil firmly. "This time we have failed," continued the wizard, "because I did not think that Okiok would leave his guest." "I thought," said Ippegoo, somewhat timidly, "that your torngak told you everything." "You are a fool, Ippegoo."
Becoming suddenly serious, he asked if anything had been seen the day before of Ujarak the angekok. "Yes, he was in the village in the evening," replied Nuna as she arranged the food on platters. "He and Ippegoo were found in the green cave yesterday by the Kablunet. He was out about the ice-heaps, and came on them just as Tumbler saved Pussi, and Ippegoo saved them both."
No one thought his conduct strange, or sought to disturb him, for angekoks belong to a privileged class. But think as hard and as profoundly as he could, no way of escape presented itself until the evening was far advanced, and then, without an appreciable effort of thought, a door seemed to fly open, and that door was Ippegoo. "Yes," thought the wizard; "that will do. Nothing could be better.
He must be very much finer when he is fat, for he is broad and tall, and looks strong; but he is thin just now oh, so thin! as thin almost as Ippegoo!" Ippegoo's mother took this in good part, as, indeed, it was intended. "But that will soon mend with stuffing," continued Nuna.
"Not at all, stupid puffin! A nose no longer than your own, and much better-shaped." The angekok said this so sternly that the too willing Ippegoo collapsed, and looked, as he felt, superlatively humble. "Now go," resumed Ujarak, with an unrelaxed brow; "go tell your story to the people assembled in the big hut. They feast there to-night, I know. Tell them what your dream has revealed.
On issuing from the cave, he saw that the fierce robber was the only one captured, and that he was on the point of receiving summary justice, for Simek and Okiok had hold of his arms, while Arbalik and Ippegoo held his legs and bore him to the edge of the cliff. "Now then!" cried Simek. "Stop, stop!" shouted Rooney. "One two heave!" cried Okiok.
You shall know in time. Will you get ready?" "No, my son, I won't." "But Ujarak says you are to get ready." "Still, my son, I won't." "Mother!" exclaimed Ippegoo, with that look and tone which usually follows the saying of something very wicked; but the pleasant little woman went on with her work with an air of such calm good-natured resolution that her son felt helpless.
Although taken much by surprise, Ujarak managed to dissemble. "Well, then," he said, "you must carry her away by force." "That is impossible," returned Ippegoo, with a faint smile and shake of the head.
"Ippegoo," he said, with an air of unwonted solemnity, for, having made up his mind to a desperate venture, the wizard wished to subdue his tool entirely as well as promptly to his will; "Ippegoo, my torngak says the thing must be done to-night, if it is to be done at all. Putting off, he says, will perhaps produce failure."
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