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I reckon you ain't tellin' us it's safe to shoot up Angus McRae's daughter even if she is a métis." "Forget her," the big whiskey-runner snarled. "She won't be a witness against us." "Why won't she?" "Hell's hinges! Do I have to tell you all my plans? I'm sayin' she won't. That goes." He flung out a gesture of scarcely restrained rage.
That this was due to no change of policy on the part of the lumber trust tools was shown when secretary Herbert Mahler went to Everett the following day in reference to the situation. He was met at the depot by Sheriff McRae who asked him what he had come to Everett for. "To see the Mayor," answered Mahler. "Anything you have to say to the Mayor, you can say to me," was McRae's rejoinder.
McRae's clean-shaven upper lip was a straight, grim surface. He voiced no fears, no doubts, but the others knew from their own anxiety how much he must be suffering. The gale increased. It drove in bitter blasts of fine stinging sleet. When for a few hundred yards they drew out of the thick forest into an open grove, it lashed them so furiously they could scarcely move in the teeth of it.
"Whad he mean when he said you could tell me how he'd settled with her?" he growled. "He whipped her last night when I took her back to camp." "Took her back to camp, did you? Why didn't you bring her to me? Who's in charge of this outfit, anyhow, young fellow, me lad?" "McRae's too big a man for us to buck. Too influential with the half-breeds.
Most of McRae's squad, in spite of the difficulties surrounding them, gained the creek, plunged in, and began a race for life up the long, open hill-side of plowed ground, fired upon at every step by the swarm of men behind, and before they reached the top, by a battery in close proximity, which poured down a shower of canister.
Tom Morse he's a man outa ten thousand, an' I don't know as I'm coverin' enough population at that." "And you're willing to make a squaw-man of him. Oh, Mr. Stearns!" He looked at her severely. "You got no license to talk thataway, Jessie McRae. You're Angus McRae's daughter an' you been to Winnipeg to school. Anyways, after what Lemoine found out " "What did he find out?
Every dog is scared of a bear the first time he sees him." "Well, I bet you Fido won't run from anything," said Hughie, confidently. To their great relief they saw the minister set off in the opposite direction across the fields. "Thank goodness! He's off to the McRae's," said Hughie. "Now, then," said Don, "we'll go back to the track there, and put the dogs on. You go on with Fido."
So when Roderick McRae became desirable in her eyes, in her usual straightforward manner, she frankly sought him out and demanded his attention. His sudden appearance on the evening of her loss of self-confidence, the appeal his rescue had made to her girlish imagination, and the charm of the forbidden that hung over Old Angus McRae's son made him a real Prince Charming.
Roderick scarcely noticed that she had gone, he was wondering if the summer holidays were to be spent in Algonquin after all, and then he noticed that the man he had been anxious to meet was shaking his hand. "I'm glad to see Angus McRae's son!" the big man was saying. "Yes, yes, I'd know you by your father. And how is he? I must see him before I leave.
She had her trousseau all ready, and then Dick had gone on a trip to the Old Country alone. No one knew the reason, though Billy had declared it was the same old reason "Another girl." Roderick McRae's chivalry had never before been called into action where young women were concerned. Now he felt something new and strong rising within him.
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