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He remembered suddenly that Jim had always used that word in speaking of her, but until then he had always thought it was some Indian term for her distinct class. "Olooya," he repeated. Then, with difficulty attempting to use her own tongue, he asked, "When did you come here?" "Last night," she answered in the same tongue.
The man looked at him with dull astonishment. "Olooya gone," he said. "Gone! where?" The Indian made a gesture to seaward which seemed to encompass the whole Pacific. "How? With whom?" repeated his angry yet half-frightened master. "With white man in ship. You say YOU no want Olooya forty dollars too much. White man give fifty dollars takee Olooya all same."
He stammered a surly excuse, backed out of the doorway, and disappeared. An hour later Jim appeared, crestfallen, remorseful, and extravagantly penitent. Pomfrey was too weak for reproaches or inquiry, and he was thinking only of Olooya. She did not return. His recovery in that keen air, aided, as he sometimes thought, by the herbs she had given him, was almost as rapid as his illness.
Olooya made witch-fire." He cast a hurried glance at his watch hanging on the wall beside him. It had RUN DOWN, although he had wound it the last thing before going to bed. He had evidently been lying there helpless beyond the twenty-four hours!
With the recollection of his vision still perplexing him, he said in a weak voice, "Who are you?" Her blue eyes met his own with quick intelligence and no trace of her former timidity. A soft, caressing light had taken its place. Pointing with her finger to her breast in a childlike gesture, she said, "Me Olooya." "Olooya!"
"There was no witch-fire there," she continued, pointing to the tower; "when it came not, Olooya came! Olooya found white chief sick and alone. White chief could not get up! Olooya lit witch-fire for him." "You?" he repeated in astonishment. "I lit it myself." She looked at him pityingly, as if still recognizing his delirium, and shook her head. "White chief was sick how can know?
He resolved that, when he again saw Olooya, he would question her; her terror of these men might be simply racial or some hereditary transmission. But his intention was never fulfilled. For when days and weeks had elapsed, and he had vainly haunted the river estuary and the rocky reef before the lighthouse without a sign of her, he overcame his pride sufficiently to question Jim.
Pausing a moment to look after the flying Olooya, the man turned and glanced around the room, and then with a coarse, familiar smile approached Pomfrey. "Hope I ain't disturbin' ye, but I allowed I'd just be neighborly and drop in seein' as this is gov'nment property, and me and my pardners, as American citizens and tax-payers, helps to support it.
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