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Next morning, however, he and Elspie were both saved the necessity of doing such violence to their feelings, by the arrival of two men from Fort Garry. They were members of a sort of police force that the Company had enrolled, and had come to arrest Duncan McKay junior, on the charge of murder!
Let's see," and the general changed the conversation to that language. "That's all right. What else? Italian? German? Russian? "Yes, sir, Russian." "You ought to be very useful to us. But you will have to work hard, Mr. McKay, very hard. There are no drones here." McKay soon found that out. From daybreak to midnight everyone at headquarters slaved incessantly.
These rations act like cocktails: I could barbecue a roebuck and finish him with you at one sitting!" "Monsieur et Madame Gargantua," she mocked him with her enchanting laughter. Then, wistful: "Kay, did you see that very fat and saucy auerhahn which the Swiss soldiers scared out of the pines down there?" "I did," said McKay. "My mouth watered."
"Barefoot man. Didn't leave much trace, but enough to show he was here. Let's look at that arrow." Back to the hollow tree they went, retrieving McKay's pistol on the way. About a yard above the earth a long shaft projected from the bark. Knowlton reached for it, but McKay held him back and drew it out. "M-hm! Thought so!" he muttered. "Poisoned." "Oof! Nice, gentle sort of a cuss," rumbled Tim.
And Jolly Roger, in response to that signal-tapping, heard nothing from within, except a monotone of voice that came from the outer room. For half an hour he waited, repeating the signals at intervals. At last a door opened, and Nada stood silhouetted against the light of the room beyond. McKay tapped again, very lightly, and the door closed quickly behind the girl.
"The point, with its sawtooth barbs, is made from the tail bone of the araya, the flat devilfish of the swamp lakes. That fish, as you perhaps know, has a whiplike tail armed with that bone; and if he strikes the bone into your flesh it breaks off and stays in the wound, and you are likely to die." "But in that case death comes from gangrene," McKay remarked.
It was as if McKay, after a long absence, had come back to his own people. The tenderness of mother and sister lay warm in Yellow Bird's breast. Slim Buck loved him as a brother. The wrinkled faces of the old softened when he came near and spoke to them; little children followed him, and at dusk and dawn Sun Cloud held up her mouth to be kissed.
Then he would commence the business of disposing of one of the diamonds. Just how he was to go about this he did not know, but he felt sure that Mother McKay, who kept the shebeen, would be able to give him some valuable advice on the subject. And after that? Well, the prospects were rosy but vague. He would get word to his wife in some way to move herself and the children to Witless Bay.
"If either McKay or Mellen were hurt I couldn't build the bridge, and the bridge must be built." "If Gordon stands pat somebody may be hurt." "I don't look for anything worse than a few broken heads, but of course I can't tell. I'll stand behind you with my last dollar, no matter what happens." Dan laughed. "As I understand the situation you won't have a dollar unless we make the crossing."
"How much is left?" asked McKay. "Hardly enough for two days for the two of us; four days perhaps for one!" answered the other. McKay looked up quickly, but the Canadian was gazing abstractedly into the pot. Apparently his remark had no significance. But McKay did not think so. Since arriving in the colony he had seen and heard much about deception and crime among both Indians and half-breeds.
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