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Updated: June 29, 2025
It is very near. Hark, Neekewa! Was that not a sound out on the water?" "I think it was the wing of a duck, Yellow Bird." "And that!" she cried swiftly, her fingers tightening still more. "That sound as if wood strikes on wood!" "The croak of a loon far up the shore, Yellow Bird." She drew her hand away. "Neekewa, listen to me," she importuned him in Cree.
"Neekewa, the spirits do not forget. They have not forgotten that winter when you came, and my people were dying of famine and sickness when I dreaded to see little Sun Cloud close her eyes even in sleep, fearing she would never open them again. They have not forgotten how all that winter you robbed the white people over on the Des Chenes, that we might live.
Her face was very pale, and her eyes so large and dark that for a moment they startled him. She was tired. Exhaustion was in her slim, limp body. A sigh came from her lips, and her shoulders swayed a little. "Sit down, Neekewa," she whispered, drawing the ropes of her hair about her as if she were cold. Then she drew a slim hand over her eyes, and shivered.
"In the Country Beyond, Neekewa." Her eyes were looking at him again, big, dark and filled with mystery. "And where is this country, Yellow Bird?" he asked, a strange chill driving the warmth out of his heart. "You mean up there?" And he pointed to the gray sky above them. "No, it is happiness to come in life, not in death," said Yellow Bird slowly. "It is not beyond the stars. It is "
You will meet again in happiness. And happiness will follow ever after. That much I learned, Neekewa. In happiness you will meet again." "Where? When?" whispered Jolly Roger, his heart beating with sudden swiftness. Again Yellow Bird passed her hand over her eyes, and as she held it there for a moment she bowed her head until Jolly Roger could see only her dew-wet hair and she said,
At first he thought it was Sun Cloud, for Peter stood with his head raised to her. Then he saw it was Yellow Bird, with her beautiful eyes looking at him steadily and strangely as he awakened. He got upon his feet and went to her, and took one of her hands. It was cold. He felt the shiver that ran through her slim body, and suddenly her eyes swept from him out into the night. "Listen, Neekewa!"
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