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But the Indian girl was evidently tired of the river, for she fastened the canoe and walked by his side. He kept up a conversation for some time, till she turned aside and entered a path which led into the woods. "Does your father live there?" he asked. "Yes," said Monima. "Good-bye," he said.
He will be big warrior some day." "I don't know about that, Monima. So your father is a chief?" "Yes," said Monima, proudly. "Great chief." "Did he give you this canoe?" "Yes." "Have you any brothers and sisters?" "One brother, young man; no sister." By this time they had reached the other side. Monima skilfully drew up the canoe alongside, and Jasper jumped out.
"You have given me my life. Is that nothing, Monima? Keep the chain, and whenever you look at it remember Jasper." So they parted, and Jasper pursued his journey to Plattville. He reached the town without further adventure, and conducted satisfactorily the business with which he was intrusted.
He had noticed Momma's look of admiration directed toward it, and he determined to give it to her. Detaching his watch from it, he held it out to the Indian girl. "Take it, Monima," he said. "It is a gift of friendship." She uttered a cry of pleasure. "You give it to Monima?" she said, half incredulous. "Yes," he said. "And I have nothing to give white boy," she said, sadly.
He was in doubt at first, but finally an idea occurred to him. He had half a dozen photographs of himself, which he had recently had taken in St. Louis. He drew out one of these and extended it to Monima. "Take that, Monima," he said. "Keep that and remember me." Monima's face lighted up with wonder and admiration when she saw the photograph, for she had never seen one before.
"Monima is glad," said the Indian girl, joyfully. Jack groaned, and Jasper came to his side and addressed him compassionately, though but a minute before Jack had been about to take his life. He saw that the blood was gushing forth from his wound. "Is he badly wounded?" asked Jasper, turning to Monima. She said something in her native language to the two men.
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