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First syllable of each of his names." The land inspector stopped in his stride and wheeled upon Holt. His eyes asked eagerly a question. "You don't mean Colby Macdonald?" "Why don't I?" "But Good Lord, he isn't a squawman, is he?" "Not in the usual meaning of the word. She never cooked and kept house for him. Just the same, little Colmac is his kid. Couldn't you see it sticking out all over him?
It was impossible for her to wait upon him in his illness and hold any repugnance toward this big, elemental man. The thing he had done might be wrong, but the very openness and frankness of his relation to Meteetse redeemed it from shame. He was neither a profligate nor a squawman. This was Diane's point of view, and in time it became to a certain extent that of Sheba.
The man would never believe him in the world. "I'll remember this," the Alaskan promised his rival. There was a cold glitter in his eyes, a sudden flare of the devil that was blood-chilling. "It's true, then," broke in Sheba. "You're a a squawman. You belong to this woman." "Nothing of the kind," he cried roughly. "That's been ended for years." "Ended?" Sheba drew Colmac forward by the wrist.
"Father shot three grizzlies there one afternoon," was Tom's remark. "I presented forty acres of it to the city," Frederick went on. "Father bought the quarter section for a dollar an acre from Leroy." Tom nodded, and the sparkle and flash in his eyes, like that of his daughter, were unlike anything that ever appeared in his brother's eyes. "Yes," he affirmed, "Leroy, the negro squawman.
Then the cold, frozen section of his brain swallowed the emotions. "I've seen a woman with a prosthetic soul," he said bitterly. "Only she didn't turn yellow because of what the aliens did!" Red spots shot onto Flannery's cheeks and one of the artificial arms jerked back as savagely as a real one. He hesitated, then reached for his shirt. "O.K., squawman!"
These several men, among whom were Albright from the Pomo settlement a squawman took the lead, and Albright, keen as a hound on trail, picked up Old Pete's marks and signs at a running walk.
But he was not yet far enough away from the blow to ask himself how much the personal hurt influenced his opinion. Though she was sorry for him, Diane did not think it best to say so yet. Presently he spoke thickly. "I suppose you have heard that he was a squawman." His friend joined battle promptly with him. "That's ridiculous. Don't be absurd, Gordon." "It's the truth. I've seen the woman.
He loaded his boat with supplies, drifted down the Yukon to the mouth of the Klondike, and towed and poled up the Klondike to Gold Bottom. But at the mouth of the Klondike he met George Carmack, and thereby hangs the tale. Carmack was a squawman. He was familiarly known as "Siwash" George a derogatory term which had arisen out of his affinity for the Indians.
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