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Updated: May 29, 2025
Niver did want to get back when he was away. But, say, Marjie Star-face, Fort Wallace away out on the Plains ain't Rockport; and rich men's homes and all that gabble they was desecratin' the Sabbath with at supper last night " O'mie broke off and took the girl's trembling hand in his. "Oh!
The star-face rippled with laughter. 'It's yours your Scheme. He's given it perfect shape for you, that's all. Don't you recognise it? But it's my Story as well. ... A ray with crimson in it shot out just then across the shoulder of the Blumlisalp, and, falling full upon the tiny face, it faded out; the Pattern faded with it; Daddy vanished too.
Jean watching my face saw his mistake and he cursed me in his anger. "You care so much for another man's wife? So! I can drive away your happiness as easily as I brought it to you," he argued. "I go back to Springvale. Nobody knows when I go. Bud's out of the way; O'mie won't be there. Suddenly, silently, I steal upon Star-face when she least thinks of me.
The week Phil came home from the rally I took a vacation. Shall I tell you why?" Marjie nodded. "Well, Star-face, it was laid on me conscience heavy to pay a part av the debt I owe to the boy who saved me life. I ain't got eyes fur nothin', and I see the clouds gatherin' black about that boy's head.
There was another letter deeper in, but this was the only one she could get out. Her arm was too short. Star-face and Amos Judson were married Christmas Day. You didn't know that." How cruelly slow he was, but it was useless to say a word. He had no heart. No plea for mercy would move him to anything but fiendish joy that he could call it forth. At last he opened the letter and read aloud.
She found it in a hole in the rock where Star-face had put it. Do you know the writing?" He held a letter before my eyes. In Marjie's well known hand I read the inscription, "Philip Baronet, Rockport, Cliff Street." "It's a letter Star-face put in the place you two had for a long time. I never could find it, but Lettie did. She gave it to me.
"Good-morning, Star-face," Jean smiled back at her; and his own face was transfigured for the instant, as his still black eyes followed her. The blood in my veins turned to fire at that look. Our eyes met and for one long moment we gazed steadily at each other.
The soldiers went by five minutes afterwards, she was that near getting away. That's what Star-face will come to by and by. Satanta is my mother's brother. I can surpass him. I know your English ways also. When you die a little later, remember what Star-face is coming to. When I get ready I will torture her to death. You couldn't escape me. No more can she. Remember it!"
"No afraid, Star-face, no afraid. Jean wants one word." Marjie did not move, and I longed to let her know how near I was to her, and yet I dared not till I knew his purpose. "Star-face," he began, "Jean drink no more. Jean promise Padre Le Claire, never, never, Star-face, not be afraid anymore, never, never. Jean good Indian now. Always keep evil from Star-face."
How full of affection were his tones. I wondered at his broken Indian tongue, for he had learned good English, and sometimes he surpassed us all in the terse excellence and readiness of his language. Why should he hesitate so now? "Star-face," there was a note of self-control in his pleading voice, "I will never drink again. I would not do harm to you. Don't be afraid."
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