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The river-man's astonishment at this bade fair to end in explosion. "My boat!" he ejaculated. "Quit my run?" "Yes," said Eddring. "I'll explain to you later the necessity I have for getting up the river quickly and why it means that I have got to have your boat." "Have my boat!" said Wilson, his voice sinking into an inarticulate whisper.
He broke off whistling to sing, and as Keith listened to the river-man's bellowing voice chanting the words of the song he had sung at McCoffin's Bend for twenty years, he grinned. And then he heard the humming of a voice in the kitchen. Even the squaw was happy. And then and then In the doorway she stood, her arms reaching out to him, love, glory, triumph in her face MARY JOSEPHINE!
Calm, lovely, spring weather; ducks all along the river; plenty of food, which is the northerner's idea of bliss; plenty of water, which is the river-man's notion of joy; plenty of leisure, which is an element in most men's heaven, for we had merely to float with the stream, three miles an hour, except when we landed to eat or sleep.
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