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Updated: June 19, 2025
The Indian element in the United States proper is so small proportionally about one in three hundred and the conditions for its amalgamation so favorable, that it would of itself require scarcely any consideration in this argument. There is no prejudice against the Indian blood, in solution. A half or quarter-breed, removed from the tribal environment, is freely received among white people.
Seeing Constantine in argument with them, he approached to demand an explanation, whereupon the quarter-breed held out a silver dollar in his palm with the words: "These men say this money no good." "What do you mean?" "It no good. No can buy grub at Company store." Boyd saw that the group was eying him suspiciously. "Nonsense! What's the matter with it?"
My mind went back indeed to the prophecy of the witch-doctor Goroko, of which it was possible that he might be thinking, but as while he spoke he kept his fierce eyes fixed upon the fat and pompous quarter-breed, Thomaso, I concluded that here was the object of his doubts. It might have occurred to him that this Thomaso would take the opportunity of her father's absence to annoy Inez.
It is needless, then, to add, when, speaking of such a man, that, willing or not, he intended that Jacky Allandale should be his. Thoughts of this wild, quarter-breed girl filled his brain as he sat solitary in his little office on the night of the pusky. He sat in his favorite chair, in his favorite position.
The journey down the Yellow Knife was a nightmare for the quarter-breed, who momentarily expected an attack from MacNair's Indians. Upon their safe arrival, however, his black eyes glittered wickedly at last MacNair was his. Fate had played directly into his hands. He knew the attack was inevitable, and during the excitement well, LeFroy could be trusted to attend to MacNair.
"Et prompt retour certainement!" answered the girl as, with a wide sweep of his hat, the quarter-breed turned and made his way toward the camp of the Indians, which was located in a spruce thicket a short distance above the clearing.
But the girl wondered at the trading-post and its appendant store-house they were fully twice the size she would have considered necessary, and constructed as to withstand a siege. Lapierre had built a fort. "Excellent buildings; and solid as the Rock of Gibraltar, Miss Elliston," smiled the quarter-breed, as with a wave of his hand he indicated the interior of the trading-room.
In the twinkling of an eye the quarter-breed realized the extreme danger of his position. His wrath knew no bounds. Up and down he raged in his fury, cursing like a madman, while all about him blaming, reviling, advising cursed the men of his ill-favoured crew. For not a man among them but knew that somewhere someone had blundered.
"De Ingins kill our 'effer," he lamented, in the mongrel speech of the quarter-breed. "Dey didn't need him; dey have plenty to eat. But dey kill our 'effer and laugh." "My cow, is it also killed, Ignace?" Marianson's neighbors closed around her, unsurprised at her late arrival, filled only with the general calamity.
That the figure was none other than Chloe Elliston was easily discernible in the bright moonlight, and with fiendish satisfaction the quarter-breed realized that the girl was playing directly into his hands. For, as he sat upon the sled beside the little camp-fire, his active brain had evolved a new scheme. If Chloe Elliston could not be made to accompany him willingly, why not unwillingly?
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