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Yet he had constituted himself her protector, and he would hardly let her go without him. It did not promise to be easy to hoodwink both Plaskett and Grampierre. What she was going to do when she found Nesis, Colina did not stop to consider. The thing to do was to find the girl, and trust to pluck and mother wit for the rest. Colina finally thought she saw her way clear.
I have come to tell you of things that happened after his arrest, after all the others went out of the country." Every one connected with the case sat up. Denholm's eye brightened. "Please go on," he said and sat down. Colina, in a low, steady voice, commenced her story at the point where Ambrose had asked her to find some one to go in search of Nesis.
"She tells me she knows where Nesis is hidden," Colina said to Germain. "She says she will take me there." "We will go back," said Germain. Colina shook her head. "No need for you to come back," she said. "It will only anger the policeman. You and Georges go on home. I will get a policeman to go with me."
I'll chance it, anyway. You come with me!" "Oh, my Angleysman!" she breathed, and sank a little limp heap at his feet. Ambrose blew up the forgotten fire and made tea. Nesis quickly revived. Having made up his mind to take her, he put the best possible face on it. There were to be no more reproaches. Her pitiful anxiety not to anger him again made him wince. Her eyes never left his face.
This was a poser. To hesitate was to confess all. Ambrose drew a quick breath and plunged ahead. "Why, she and a lot of girls were picking berries that day. They came around the shack here and began to jolly me through the window. I fixed Nesis with my eye and scared her. I made a sign for her to bring me a knife. She brought it at night.
Nesis and I could not sleep. We talked until morning. "I asked her questions, and she would answer yes or no, or let me know by signs when I was on the wrong track. She was wonderfully clever in making up signs. "As she made signs to me I interpreted them aloud, and she would nod or shake her head according to whether I was right or wrong.
"She believed that her father's ability to speak English had threatened Watusk's power in the tribe, and that Watusk, on that account, had had her father put out of the way. Therefore she kept it a secret that she could speak it, too. "Nesis said that all of Mr. Strange's and Watusk's talk was against the white people.
The moon had sunk behind the hill across the river, but it was still dangerously bright. Nesis took hold of Ambrose's sleeve and pointed off to the right. She whispered in his ear: "Ev'ry tam feel what is under your foot before step hard." She did not make directly for the river, but led him step by step up the hill toward a growth of timber that promised safety.
Nesis lifted her eyes to Colina's eyes luminous with eagerness and emotion and quickly nodded again. "Why doesn't she speak!" thought Colina. Aloud she said: "All right. Tell them I am going to take you. Tell them anybody that interferes does so at his peril." She pointed to her rifle. To Colina's astonishment, the girl lowered her head and flung an arm up over her face.
They took us down to Fort Enterprise. We took Nesis. She is buried there. "At Fort Enterprise we had to wait until the ice packed in the river, and enough snow fell to make a winter trail. Then we started with dog teams. I brought Captain Stinson and my servant, Cora Thomas, for additional witnesses. It is seven hundred miles. That is why we were so long." Mr. Pascoe rose.
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