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Then the same cable was made fast to a sturdy fir, the engineer stood by, and the ponderous machine slid forward on its own skids, like an up-ended barrel on a sled, down off the scow, up the bank, smashing brush, branches, dead roots, all that stood in its path, drawing steadily up to the anchor tree as the cable spooled up on the drum.
No redress was made the settlers, no money was paid them, nothing for them but insulting commands and black looks from the Canadian police enforcing the order of the governor. "Never again," said my father repeatedly, "will I build or own a home in the Klondyke. This scow will shelter me until I make what money I want, and then good-bye to such a country and its oppressive officials."
As the sun began to grow less, the barren hills on the far side of the river turned into a dark palisade. Finally Colonel Howell appeared. He had been engaged in settling his accounts and a merchant who came with him spent some time in checking up goods already aboard the scow. But when Colonel Howell learned that the Count was not present he strolled away almost nonchalantly.
This was a danger to be avoided under all circumstances, and so much the more, because the Delaware found that Hist would not take to the cover herself so long as he remained exposed. Accordingly, Chingachgook abandoned the scow to its own movements, forced Hist into the cabin, the doors of which he immediately secured, and then he looked about him for the rifles.
Christ died for him, lads! For shame! Shame!" And looking back I can see him there on the wharf above the scow, hands hanging, shoulders falling together, brooding over the unredeemed. Minister Malden had seen "the field" in a day of his surging youth seen it, and no more.
Not, of course, that he had ever steered a scow of any sort, but he had imagination. The Adventurer and Follow Me were heading West Southwest one-fourth West to pass Boon Island to starboard, and Kittery Point lay some thirty miles away.
Screech Owl lifted her head and drew back frightened. Something warned her that she must not tell him where his son lived. "I'll get him for ye," she said doggedly. "Where be he?" demanded the scowman. "I ain't tellin' ye where he be now, Lem." Scraggy's tone was sulky. "Why?" "'Cause I'll go and get him. I'll bring him to the scow lessen lessen " "Lessen what?" cried Lem darkly.
Go, then; and the Manitou presarve you!" "My brother will stay here with the scow. Wah will soon be standing on the shore waiting, and Chingachgook must hasten." The Indian then joined his two co-adventurers, and first lowering the sail, they all three entered the canoe, and left the side of the ark.
He left the door open, through which the breeze flung the dust and the dead leaves. "Lem'll see ye in the scow," he said. "I ain't got nothin' to say 'bout this only as how Flea goes to one or the other of ye."
He says the girl went aboard the scow and that the scow started down-river. That much I learned, sir. But all the rest he mumbles in a tongue I can not understand. Crossen says it's Cree, and that old Mooie believes devils jumped on him with clubs down at Kim's Bayou. Of course they must have been men. I don't believe in Mooie's devils, sir."
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