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Updated: May 17, 2025
Consumed with wrath and shame he went his way to his own camp, and seeking relief from intolerable thoughts busied himself with preparations for a start on the morrow, then schooled himself to wait as best he could, through the long hours before Ainley's appointed time. Again the midnight sun found him sitting behind his smoke-smudge, waiting, listening.
Half an hour passed and the robin making the discovery that it was really bed-time, ceased its chirping; the loon no longer mocked the wolf, but still the man sat behind his smoke-smudge, tireless, unsleeping, waiting.
"It's the train with the dry-farmers," Andy informed her with a glance at the nearing smoke-smudge. "Is it? We aren't any too soon then, are we? I left Son at home and he threatened to run away and live with you boys. I almost wish I'd brought him along. He's been perfectly awful. So have the men Claude hired to take your places, if you want to know, boys.
Now no sound except the ripple of the river broke the quiet, and after a moment he nodded to himself. "Now, he will come." The thin pungent song of a mosquito impinged upon the stillness, something settled on his neck and there followed a swift sting like the puncture of a hypodermic needle. Instantly he slapped the place with his hand, and retreated behind his smoke-smudge.
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