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Updated: May 14, 2025
He's the spit'n' image of his dad." "I see it now you've pointed it out. I was trying to think who he reminded me of. Of course it was Macdonald." "Mac met up with Meteetse when he first scouted this country for coal five years ago. So far's I know he was square enough with the girl. She never claimed he made any promises or anything like that.
"What is it that you have to tell me about this boy's father?" Meteetse began to speak. At the first mention of Macdonald's name Sheba's eyes dilated. Her smile, her sweet, glad pleasure at Gordon's arrival, were already gone like the flame of a blown candle. Clearly her heart was a-flutter, in fear of she knew not what.
Colby Macdonald is too big and too aggressive not to have made hundreds of enemies. His life has been threatened dozens of times. But he pays no attention to it goes right on building-up this country. Yet you'd think he had a cloven hoof to hear some people talk. I've no patience with them." "The woman's name is Meteetse," Gordon said in an even voice, just as if he were answering a question.
They appeared to know nobody else on the Sarah, though once Gordon met Dustin just as he was hurrying away from the Indian woman. The little remittance man took the pains to explain to Elliot later that he was trying to find out whether the Indians knew any English. Meteetse transferred with the other Kusiak passengers at the river junction.
It was impossible for her to wait upon him in his illness and hold any repugnance toward this big, elemental man. The thing he had done might be wrong, but the very openness and frankness of his relation to Meteetse redeemed it from shame. He was neither a profligate nor a squawman. This was Diane's point of view, and in time it became to a certain extent that of Sheba.
He is the biggest man I know, and now that he is in love with a good woman he'll rise to his chance." "She ought to be told the truth about Meteetse and her boy," he insisted doggedly. "I'm not going to disturb her with a lot of old maids' gossip. That's flat." "But if I prove to you that it isn't gossip." Mrs. "Does the Government pay you to mind other people's business, Gordon?" she snapped.
He stopped at his house only long enough to get into fresh clothes and from there walked down to the office. It had been the intention of Macdonald to go direct from Sheba to his office, but the explosion brought about by Meteetse had sent him out into the hills for a long tramp.
In the afternoon he came upon a real surprise when he found Meteetse and her little boy Colmac seated upon a box on the lower deck where freight for local points was stored. His guess was that they were local passengers, but wharf after wharf slipped behind them and the two still remained on board.
Meteetse does not hold herself disgraced but honored. She counts her boy far superior to the other youngsters of the village, and he is so considered by the tribe. I am told she lords it over her sisters." A faint flush of anger had crept into her cheeks. "Your view of morality puts us on a level with the animals. I will not discuss the subject, if you please." "We must discuss it.
The field agent was not the only one on board who wondered where she was going. Selfridge was consumed with curiosity, and when she and the boy got off at Kusiak, he could restrain himself no longer. Gordon saw Wally talking with her. Meteetse showed him an envelope which evidently had an address written upon it, for the little man pointed out to her the direction in which she must go.
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