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We can try some of the sheep liver, if you like, for I've brought it down in the packs. For that matter, it won't hurt us maybe to try a little piece of meat roasted on a stick before the fire, the way the Indians cook. That, with a bit of bacon and some bannock that I'll make, will do us, if we have a cup of tea. You see, I've a little can along which I got in Moise's cook-bag."
Ten years later than that, they came up the big bend of the Columbia. Many men were killed on the rapids in those days. But they kept on pushing in, and in that way they learned all these old trails. I expect some Fraser uncle or other of Moise's has been across here many a time." "Seex feet high, an' strong like a hox," smiled Moise, nodding his head. "Heem good man, my onkle, yes, heem."
The art that had fed him for years was now to be the means of recovering his money. Hadji Hussein daily met Ben Moïse but he never again referred to the money, and further, Hussein's sons were always in company with Ben Moïse's only son, a lad of ten. Time passed, and Ben Moïse entirely forgot about the jar, olives, and gold; not so Hadji Hussein. He had been working.
As the chill of the mountain night came on, the boys put on their blanket coats and pulled the bed-rolls close up to the fire, near which the men both sat smoking quietly. Already the boys were beginning to learn reticence in camp with men like these, and not to interrupt with too many questions; but at length Jesse's eagerness to hear Moise's story could no longer be restrained.
Below this the mountains crowded still closer in to the stream, seeming to rise almost directly from the edge of the banks and to tower nearly two thousand feet in height. "We must be getting close to the big portage now," said Rob to Moise, as they reached this part of the river. "Yes," said Moise, "pretty soon no more water we'll could ron." Moise's speech was almost prophetic.
We wouldn't need to take along any tent, just a blanket and a little something to eat I suppose we could carry enough." He looked so longingly at Moise's pots and pans that everybody laughed at him once more. "All right," said Alex, "we'll go." The old hunter now busied himself making ready their scant supplies.
"Sometam he'll use heem for pray. S'pose I'll want ver' much for get moose I'll play on heem an' seeng. S'pose I want for get grizzly ver' much then I seeng ver' hard for get grizzly. S'pose you'll seeng an' play, always you'll get those game, sure." "I don't see what we'd do without you, Moise," said John, who was continually rummaging around in Moise's ditty-bag.
In the meantime Hadji Hussein and Ben Moïse were greater friends than ever, and their children were likewise playmates. One day Hussein took Ben Moïse's son to his Harem and told him, much to the lad's joy, that he was to be their guest for a week. Later on Ben Moïse called on Hadji Hussein to know the reason of his son's not returning as usual at sundown.
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