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He declares the jacket isn't Jernyngham's; he won't allow the man can be in the muskeg. A day or two after Jernyngham disappeared he bought one of the new wide-swath binders. Paid the money down in new bills, which was what Jernyngham had, though the implement agent didn't note the numbers." "Pretty strong points. What's your private opinion? Out with it."
But he had not long passed this gate when I noticed Jean, the great chief's man, and a dozen of the Stoney Crees ride after him. I am sure that they are plotting him harm." "What route did they take?" asked Annette, while her eyes grew large and bright. "They went upon the muskeg trail. It leads directly to Frog Lake." "Thank you again, chief; I go immediately." Julie likewise turned about.
"I suppose you know that Jernyngham's missing?" "I heard that he was killed." "Looks like it," said Curtis. "You know the muskeg where the creek spreads out, about fourteen miles north?" "I don't; never been up so far." Curtis noticed the prompt disclaimer. "Anyway, Jernyngham rode there and was knocked out with something heavy that must have left him stunned, if it didn't make an end of him.
Selincourt from the muskeg. But Katherine went on to the store with her head in a whirl; almost she was disposed to believe that dark story from her father's past to be only a dream, or some conjured-up vision of a diseased fancy almost, but not quite. Only too well she knew that it was the dread of Mr.
But the death which the Breeds awaited was slow to come. Slow slow. And so they would have it. Like some hungry monster the muskeg mouths its victims with oozing saliva, supping slowly, and seemingly revels in anticipation of the delicate morsel of human flesh. The watchers heard the gurgling mud, like to a great tongue licking, as it wrapped round the doomed man's body, sucking him down, down.
It was hardly fit to drink, but I felt better and clearer-headed after swallowing some; and then I noticed thick grass in front of me. This implied that the swamp was shallower there and I made for the other bank, instead of going back. The grass and reeds that I disturbed would soon straighten, which accounts for your losing my tracks. You wouldn't have expected me to wade across the muskeg?"
His load was again "stuck in the muskeg, a matter of two mile off, he guessed." If left there all night, it would sink so deep in that quicksand-like marsh that there would be little hope of ever extracting it. The poor lad said his team was too done up to be of any use, and he was so "dead tired, he hadn't a leg to stand on." Still, he didn't object to go back if men and teams were sent with him.
He had reached the shadow of a poplar bluff when he heard hurried footsteps and a man with a hot face came into sight. "I'm going across your place to save time; I want my horse," he explained hastily. "Curtis, the policeman, has ridden in to the settlement and told me to go up and search a muskeg near the north trail with Stanton. Somebody's killed Jernyngham and hidden him there."
Craigin, without a doubt, and they ought to be isolated at once." "Isolated? How?" "A separate camp must be built and someone appointed to attend them." "A separate camp!" exclaimed Craigin; "I'll see them blanked first! Look here, Haines, let's have no nonsense about this. I'm three weeks, yes, a month, behind with this job here. This blank, blank muskeg is knocking the whole contract endways.
It's mostly a sort of tundra and muskeg. There's more flies to the square inch than you'd reckon there's room for. But it's the home of the silver fox that's never been hunted." His words were lost upon the girl. Her whole attention had become absorbed with her first glance out across the lake.
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