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He hit straight north, making noise as he went, but once in the timber he swung southward, and plunged through the creek with Peter under his arm. Not until they had traveled a good half mile over the plain did Jolly Roger speak. Then he said, speaking directly at Peter, "Cassidy thinks I'll sure hit for the North country again, Pied-Bot. But we're foolin' him.
I've done a lot of things since then, but I've done it all with my naked fists, and I've never put a bullet or a knife into a man except Roach the Free Trader. And the funniest thing of the whole business, Pied-Bot, is this I didn't kill Jed Hawkins. Some day mebby I'll tell you about what happened on the trail, the thing which you and Nada didn't see. But now "
But each time came the other picture a vision of ceaseless flight, of hiding, of hunger and cold and never ending hardship, and at the last, inevitable as the dawning of another day prison, and possibly the hangman. Not until late that afternoon did Peter see the old Jolly Roger in the face of his master. And Jolly Roger said: "We've made up our mind, Pied-Bot. We can't go back.
When she shut herself up and starved for those three days and nights in her little conjurer's house, just for you and me SOMETHING HAPPENED. Didn't it? Wouldn't you say something happened?" Peter swallowed and his teeth clicked as he gave evidence of understanding. "She told us a lot of truth," went on Jolly Roger, with deep faith in his voice "And we must believe, Pied-Bot.
"We may have done some things we oughtn't to, Pied-Bot," he said, "but tonight I sort o' think we've tried to make restitution. And if they hang us, which they probably will some time, I sort o' think it'll make us happy to know we've done it for her. Eh, Pied-Bot?" And the moon sailed out for a space, and shone on the dead whiteness of Jolly Roger's face.
Then we brought him back to life and lugged him to a cabin, and the little stranger girl took him, and nursed him, and Cassidy fell in love with her and married her. So Yellow Bird was right again, Pied-Bot. We've got to believe her. And she says everything is coming out right for us, and that we are going back to Nada, and be happy " Jolly Roger's pipe-bowl glowed in the blackness.
"It's coming soon, Peter. I'm expecting it. Something is happening which she won't tell us about. She is afraid for me. I know it. But I'm going to find out soon. And then, Pied-Bot, I think we'll probably kill Jed Hawkins, and hit for the North."
Jolly Roger's fingers tightened at Peter's neck. "Well, we're going," he said, as though he was telling Peter something new. "I'm believing Yellow Bird, Pied-Bot. I'm believing her now. What she told us was more than fortune-telling. It wasn't just Indian sorcery.
When she shut herself up and starved for those three days and nights in her little conjurer's house, just for you and me SOMETHING HAPPENED. Didn't it? Wouldn't you say something happened?" Peter swallowed and his teeth clicked as he gave evidence of understanding. "She told us a lot of truth," went on Jolly Roger, with deep faith in his voice "And we must believe, Pied-Bot.
"You see, Pied-Bot," he said, discussing the matter with Peter, while he smoked a pipeful of tobacco in the early evening, "Cassidy thinks we're on our way north, as fast as we can go. He'll hit for the upper end of the Lake and the Black River waterway, and keep right on into the Porcupine country. It's a big country up there, and we've always taken plenty of space for our travels.
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