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Updated: May 17, 2025
"Where is Sépé?" he asked, as he sat down. "Locked up in there," said Palmer, pointing to one of the store-rooms. "Poor devil! Don't be too rough on her. I had to lay a stick across her back pretty often before she would help me to carry Jinaban down to the canoe. And I had to threaten to shoot her coming across the lagoon.
"Because this man Porter is both wise and brave; and in two days or less we shall sleep in peace, for Jinaban shall be dead." Back from the clustering houses of Ijeet village the man who was "wise and brave" was sitting upon the bole of a fallen coco-palm with his arms clasped round the waist of the star-eyed Sépé, who listened to him half in fear, half in admiration.
And in another minute, followed by the girl Sépe and a dozen or more men and women, he sallied out into the road, knife in hand, lurching up against a palm-tree every now and then, and steadying himself with a drunken oath.
Sépé leant her head upon his shoulder and pressed his hand. "Nay, let them be; for now do I know thou lovest me. And to-night, when my mother sleeps, shall we take a canoe and go to Jinaban." At dawn next morning Palmer was aroused from his sleep by a loud knocking at the door, and the clamour of many voices.
Our first camp was at Sturgeon River the Namáo Sepe of the Crees a fine stream in a defile of hills clothed with poplar and spruce, the former not quite in leaf, for the spring was backward, though seeding and growth in the Edmonton District was much ahead of Manitoba.
Two days later Sépé, who had made her peace with Palmer's wife, met the sailor as he was walking down to the beach to bathe. "Wilt thou keep thy promise and marry me?" she asked. "No," answered the half-caste, pushing her aside roughly; "marriage with thee or any other woman is not to my mind. But go to the white man and he will give thee the forty dollars and ten tins of biscuit instead.
'Let me go first, she said, stooping down, and telling me to hold on to her grass girdle, she led the way till we came out into an open spot, and there was Jinaban's house, and Jinaban sitting inside it, before a fire of coconut shells, handling your revolver and looking very pleased. He shook hands with me and, I could see at once, believed everything that Sépé had told him.
Then Sépé was to settle her account with your wife while Jinaban rallied the Ijeet people, in case the Ailap natives wanted to fight. After that he and I were to divide all the plunder in the house and station between us, take two of your whaleboats, and with some of his people make for some other island in the Carolines as quick as possible. And Sépé was to be Mrs. Frank Porter.
"Nay, Sépé," broke in a lad who sat near, "'tis true, for I was on the ship and saw this man fight with three others. He does not lie."
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