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Updated: May 15, 2025
"Moreover," said the trader, "your old prisoner who gave you the slip and ran away with Adolay is among them." "Then," cried Magadar, starting forward, "we will get our guns and go after them. The young men have long wished for a chance of revenge." "The young men hev wished for nothing o' the sort," cried MacSweenie, with a fierce expression in his blue eyes that was very impressive.
"Is Alizay a squaw?" asked the insulted brave angrily. Magadar thought it wise to make no answer to this question, and in a few seconds more the kayaks doubled round a point that jutted into the stream and were hid from view. But the two bullets had not missed their billets. One the first fired had dropped into Gartok's canoe and buried itself in his left thigh.
"May it not have been fear of this man, this Magadar, which drove her away?" suggested Cheenbuk. "You were not there to defend her. She may have been afraid of him, although you fear him not." "That is true," returned the Indian, with a brighter look, "though I thought that Adolay feared nothing but she is not her father."
Nothing therefore required to be done but to embark and give chase. For this purpose two canoes were deemed sufficient, with three men in each. Magadar took charge of the leading canoe.
Then he marked out a site for the future dwelling-house and store, got out the tools and set to work to fell, saw, and shape suitable timber for the buildings. He constituted Magadar chief hunter to the establishment, supplied him with a new gun, powder and ball, and sent him off to the woods as proud as, and doubtless much happier than, a king.
Alizay and Magadar, and many of our braves especially the young ones think that a fiery spirit, that flares up like powder, and is always ready to fight, is the right one. You and our old chief think that gentleness and forbearance and unwillingness to fight till you cannot help it is the right spirit. How do you know which is right? You and the war-lovers cannot both be right!"
Five of Alizay's comrades, led by Magadar, came upon the scene, and, as it happened, Cheenbuk's back chanced to be towards them. They did not dare to fire, for fear of hitting their comrade, but they rushed unitedly forward with tomahawk and scalping-knife ready. "Take him alive," said Magadar. Cheenbuk heard the voice.
"He shall die," was the remark of Alizay just as the girl came within hearing, "he has killed one of our braves." "Ay, and he shall die by torture," said Magadar, who was a relation of the man that had been slain. "Ho! ho!" exclaimed most of the warriors in tones of approval, but there were a few among them who were silent. They leaned to mercy's side.
Only a few of the balls reached the fugitives, and went skipping over the water, each wide of its mark. "Point high," said Magadar to Alizay, who had just re-charged his gun. The Indian obeyed, fired, and watched for the result, but no visible result followed.
Will not the Eskimo watch for his chance, get free from his bonds, kill some of us when we are off our guard, and, perhaps, escape?" "That is so. He must be killed," remarked Magadar, with a glance of scorn at the merciful youth, "and the sooner the better." "Let us do it at once," said one of the blood-thirsty.
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