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Alton nodded, but did not ask if his companion had effected a crossing. "There was a good deal of water coming down?" he said. "Oh, yes," said Okanagan. "It was cold. Boulders all along on the other side. Now if the beast got over he'll be lighting out for home, and there are some of us better than others at picking up a trail."
They had an opportunity of showing their affection before I came out to Canada, and didn't take it. I found the best friend I ever had in this country and as there seems no other way we'll try the canon." Okanagan sat down again, and hacked away with Alton's knife at a piece of redwood he was fashioning into a paddle.
"I guess you'll lie right where you are and keep very still, or I'll make a hole through the other leg," he said. Alton appeared to chuckle, but his arm slipped from under him, and he dropped back heavily amidst the blankets with eyes closed while Seaforth bent over him. "That's all right," said Okanagan. "You needn't worry.
Seaforth to humour him touched the flask with his lips, and handed it to Tom, who did the same, and then screwing the top on it passed it back to Seaforth no emptier than when it reached him. Alton, however, raised his head a trifle further, and looked at both of them. "You'll have to do it better. Let me see the thing," he said. Okanagan glanced at him severely.
Turning, he glanced at Alton, who had with apparent difficulty swallowed a little of the tea. He lay amidst the blankets with eyes closed, breathing unevenly. "Then you'll go on to Somasco, Tom, and send back the boys for us. They may be in time," he said. Okanagan strode softly to the entrance of the tent and drew the canvas back.
"I left Okanagan and Seaforth with enough of the boys to hold the claim sitting tight," he said. "Talked to the chiefs in Victoria, and showed them Damer's testimony. They told me that nobody had a patent, and that everything that had been done was informal, and because they would probably have to submit the case to Ottawa it would take time for them to come to a decision. And now for Somasco.
Saunders appeared to find some difficulty in preserving a befitting self-restraint, but he accomplished it. "What did you do with the money you'd taken already?" was his next question. "Wrapped it up in a flour-bag," said the man from Okanagan, cheerfully. "Then I pitched the thing into an empty sugar-keg. Wrote up what the boys owed you, and put the book into the keg too.
Horses were provided for us to perform the journey overland to Okanagan. We left on the 13th; on the 15th we encamped on the borders of Lac Vert, having experienced a violent snow-storm in the early part of the day.
His hands were split and opened by the frost, and the wounds bled at every stroke, but while the red glare of the fire Okanagan was feeding with washed-up branches flickered about him he panted and smote, until the power went from him, and his comrade took his place.
Alton was sinewy, but he was almost choking before he freed one hand, and drove it into a tender portion of his assailant's frame. Then with a little laugh Tom of Okanagan flung him across the tent. "Great Columbus! It's good I found out in time," he said. Alton was almost speechless still, and, while he gasped, the object he had fallen on moved strenuously beneath him.
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