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Updated: June 5, 2025
"In the first place, we found it clutched by one of the skeletons, and we know from the knife wounds in those skeletons, and the weapons near them, that the two men fought and killed themselves. They fought for this map, for the precious secret which each wished to possess alone. Now " He took the map from Wabi's fingers and held it up between them and the fire. "Isn't the rest of it clear?"
In a flash Rod realized what had happened and passed back his own, but that moment's loss of time proved almost fatal. Freed of its guiding hand the birch bark swung broadside to the current, and at the same time Wabi's voice rose in a shrill cry of warning. "It's not rocks, it's a whirlpool!" he yelled. "The other shore, swing her out, swing her out!"
But he knew that he was half a mile from the Post, and that Wabi's sister should not be here at breakfast time. In this minute's quiet he unconsciously studied the tracks in the ground. How small the pretty Indian maiden's feet were! And he noticed, too, that her moccasins, unlike most moccasins, had a slight heel. But in a moment more his inspection was cut short.
Why, she thinks as much of you as she does of me, Wabi! She'd be tickled to death! Do you mean it?" Wabi's bronzed face flushed a deeper red at his friend's enthusiasm. "I won't promise for sure," he said. "But I'd like to see her almost as much as you, I guess. If I can, I'll go." Rod's face was suffused with a joyful glow.
The youth threw off his pack with a spiritless effort and flopped into a chair as though in the last stage of exhaustion. "You'll have to undo the pack," he replied. "I'm too tired and hungry." Wabi's manner changed at once to one of real sympathy. "I'll bet you're tired, Rod, and half starved. We'll have dinner in a hurry. Ho, Muky, put on the steak, will you?"
"Then I won't," replied Rod gallantly, and at Wabi's burst of laughter both blushed.
Mukoki chuckled in high humor, and Roderick asked no more questions, but at Wabi's command dug in his paddle and kept at it until the birch bark safely made the point of land beyond the rock. When he looked back Wabi had tied the rope around his body and was already waist deep in the water.
The attempted abduction of Wabi's sister, Rod's heroic rescue and the death of one of the captors, who was recognized as one of Woonga's men, caused a seven-day sensation at the Post. There was now no thought of leaving on the part of the young wolf hunters.
He held out his knife, tip upward, and pointed to it with the index finger of his free hand. Wabi's eyes fell on the tip of the blade. Mukoki stared. For a full half minute the three stood in speechless amazement. Clinging to the knife tip was a tiny fleck of yellow, gleaming lustrously in the sun as Rod slowly turned the handle of his weapon. "Another gold bullet!"
With something between a yell of joy and a cry of astonishment a youth of about Wabi's age sprang from the second sleigh and ran to the Indian boy, catching him in his arms as for a second time, he sank fainting upon the snow. "Wabi what's the matter?" he cried. "Are you hurt? Are you " For a moment Wabigoon struggled to overcome his weakness. "Rod " he whispered, "Rod Minnetaki "
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