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At the same moment Ujarak had made another desperate thrust, which, unlike the former, entered deep, but being misdirected, did not touch a vital part. In the violence of his effort the man fell, and the dying bear rolled upon him, rendering him also insensible.
"But if," said the pupil timidly, "I should only find out things that your torngak has already told you, what " He stopped short, for Ujarak, springing up, walked smartly away, leaving his follower behind to finish the question, and gather up the spears. "Yes; he is right. I am a fool," murmured Ippegoo. "Yet his conduct does seem strange. But he is an angekok. That must be the reason."
"Not at all, stupid puffin! A nose no longer than your own, and much better-shaped." The angekok said this so sternly that the too willing Ippegoo collapsed, and looked, as he felt, superlatively humble. "Now go," resumed Ujarak, with an unrelaxed brow; "go tell your story to the people assembled in the big hut. They feast there to-night, I know. Tell them what your dream has revealed.
He was found by his mother in the evening in a retired spot by the sea, sitting on the rocks with a very disconsolate countenance. "My son, what is the matter?" "Mother, my heart is heavy. I cannot forget Ujarak." "But he treated you ill, my son." "Sometimes not always. Often he was kind and and I loved him. I cannot help it." "Grieve not, Ippe," rejoined pleasant little Kunelik.
In truth, this astute wizard never failed to leave some such prediction behind him every time he quitted home, so as to prepare the people for whatever might occur; and, should nothing occur, he could generally manage to colour some event or incident with sufficient importance to make it fulfil the prediction, at least in some degree. When at last he rose to depart, Ujarak turned to Nunaga.
He paused for a moment or two, to let his tissue of lies have full effect, but the very matter-of-fact leader took advantage of the pause to ask how it was that if he, Ujarak, had been told by his torngak of the coming of the trading party, he had failed to tell his tribe not to go on a hunting expedition, but to await their arrival.
"Ye-yes; but in this case there seems no uncertainty, for she and Angut " "Silence! you worse than baby walrus!" Ippegoo shut his mouth, and humbly drooped his eyelids. After a few minutes, Ujarak, having swallowed his wrath, continued in a calm tone "This time we have failed. Next time we will be sure to succeed, and " "I suppose your torngak told "
The poor fellow shrank from adding, "Ujarak must be a deceiver;" but he began to think that Red Rooney might not have been far wrong after all when he called him a fool. Ippegoo was now warned that he must keep carefully out of the wizard's way, and tell no one of the deceit that had been practised.
The feeling seemed to break on his mind as a revelation. "Ho!" he thought, "here it comes; it comes at last! Ujarak told the truth I am becoming one of the wise men." So delighted was the poor fellow with the idea, and with the strong hope created thereby, that his blood began to course more rapidly and his heart to beat high.
"To make preparation for the feast when they return," said the wizard, coming quickly to the rescue of his unready follower. "Then they will be back immediately, I suppose?" said Rooney, looking pointedly at the wizard. "Yes, immediately," answered Ujarak, without appearing to observe the pointed look, "unless something happens to detain them."
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