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And she was thirsting, as only a mother can, for the story of it. "So. Marcel him say. An-ina listen." Keeko had beaten the winter where Marcel had failed. But then Keeko's journey had been southward towards the sun, where the forest sheltered, and the river pursued a deep-cut course to the westward of the great hills supporting the wind-swept plateau of Unaga.
It all long piece 'way. Marcel wait while river him break, then long-piece 'way river break too. So. This Keeko girl she come by river. No? She mak' trail. She think Marcel not come. He no more care find Keeko. So. Marcel go all heap sick. No Keeko no nothing." The woman's halting words lost nothing of their purpose in their limitations.
He lived on the trail, and the Indians were given no rest. Keeko, borne on the uplift of success, knew no weariness when the effort promised treasure. They were working against time. Each of them knew it. And Marcel had the whole season mapped out almost to the hour. So the days drew out into weeks, and the sun dropped lower and lower towards the horizon.
When the last of the Sleepers took their departure and the store was closed for the night he passed into the kitchen for his supper. He looked to find Keeko. He looked to find Marcel. He looked to revel in those moments of happiness which still seemed utterly unreal, even impossible. There were so many things he still had to learn before But An-ina had all the wisdom of a great mother.
"At the bank at Seal Bay," she said hastily, lest her abstraction should be noticed. "You keep it all there?" "No." Keeko shook her head. "But I'll have to this. It's just too big. I'd be scared to carry it with me." Marcel laughed again. "That 'scare' again," he said. Then he turned, and for a moment gazed at the perfect profile which showed up against the growing dusk. "Say, you make me laff.
Steve's love for An-ina was built upon the unshakable foundations of perfect understanding. He strode out towards the gates, and the lovers heard the splash of his boots as he waded the melting snow. They turned. And it was Marcel who made half-shamefaced explanation. "I was telling Keeko of the weed," he said.
"It's the limit you need. I've figgered it. I've talked it out with Little One Man." "Yes. I can make home in a month." Keeko drew a sharp breath. She could make home. Never in her life had she felt as she felt now. Home! Marcel ripped his knife in an opposite diagonal on the reverse of the wood. The force he applied seemed almost vicious. "Are you glad?" "I s'pose so." "You s'pose so?
Even Uncle Steve, that precious guide and friend, who had always occupied the central place in his focus, had almost been forgotten. For Keeko, too, whose youth had been shadowed from the moment understanding had broken through the golden mists of childhood's dream-world, a new meaning to life had been born.
Two days later they had landed in a country whose relation to that which Keeko knew was only in the swarming flies and mosquitoes, and the keen air, which, even in the height of the open season, warned her of the terrors which must reign when the aurora lit the night of winter.
It's too good to let slip. Well?" "Too good? Well, I'd smile. Too good? Gee!" Nicol was wholly deceived as Keeko intended him to be. He turned abruptly away to the counter where the bottle of rye whisky stood and helped himself to a full measure of it. He drank it down at a gulp. He had won the day. He had swept aside the antagonism he had felt threatened his ultimate purposes.
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