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Updated: June 11, 2025
We have a consort, another whaler, who was to have taken our cargo of oil on board, and to have gone to England with that and her own cargo, and the missionary's wife was to have been sent home in her." "What's a missionary?" inquired I. "Well, I don't exactly know; but he is a preacher who goes out to teach the savages."
Had the chief been perfectly explicit, he would have confessed that fully one-half of his waking thoughts had been occupied in thinking of the death of the Son of God, of the missionary's prayer for his enemies, and of the sublime morality connected with such a religion.
She raised her soft, black eyes, shining with a wondrous light of surprise and expectation, to the young missionary's face. Beyond the circle the Indians were massed together, even beyond the limits of the glade. Under the trees on every side sat warriors astride their steeds; some lounged on the green turf; many reclined in the branches of low-spreading maples.
In his agony, the Brother merely asked to be soothed a little, in order that he might gather together sufficient strength to return to the Grotto in the afternoon, as he had not been able to do so in the morning. However, his pains increased, and at last he swooned away. When the Sister entered the ward she found the doctor seated at the missionary's bedside.
But just when it looked as if the missionary's life had reached its last day, the lion suddenly fell down dead from the effect of the bullets which he had fired into it. Four years after he had been in Africa he married Mary Moffat, the missionary's daughter.
The Indian, glancing at the lad, went stolidly on his way, up the main street, through the village, till he was hidden from view by the trees on the missionary's land. Mrs. Payson and her children stood at the window, watching the retreating figure of the Indian with mingled fear and admiration. "Isn't he handsome?" exclaimed the elder of the little girls.
"Now listen to me. If ever I catch you round here again or anywhere else on such an errand, I'll shoot you like a dog. Now be off." The boy bounded away with a broad grin of relief. Trent walked up to the house and asked for the missionary's wife. She came to him soon, in what was called the parlour. A frail, anaemic-looking woman with tired eyes and weary expression.
When they reached the head of the rapids, at the foot of which the sturgeon were reported to have been seen in such numbers, there was a brief rest ere the run down was attempted. The Indians all protested against the missionary's resolve to run such wild rapids in a canoe which they were certain was so unfitted for such a dangerous trip.
You'll grab it right away. Will you? Can you do it? Have you the nerve?" There was a taunt in the challenge. It was calculated. There was something else. The missionary's dark eyes were almost pleading. Bull seized the letter. He almost snatched it. "Will I do it? Can I do it? Have I the nerve?" he cried, in a tone of fierce exulting.
And by the time Leclere, finally convalescent, sallow and shaky, took the sun by the cabin door, Batard had reasserted his supremacy among his kind, and brought not only his own team-mates but the missionary's dogs into subjection.
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