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"But I'm so glad to see you, Minnetaki," persisted the youth. "You don't know how disappointed I was to find you gone when we returned to Wabinosh House from our hunting trip. Wabi and Mukoki " "Sh-h-h-h!" Minnetaki placed her hand upon his lips. "You must keep quiet, Roderick. Don't you know how curious I am to know how you are here? But you must not tell me now. Let me do the talking. Will you?
And and oh, Rod, I just can't keep it in any longer, no matter if you do scold me! Your mother has come and she is at Wabinosh House now!" For a moment Rod stood like one struck dumb. Then he found his voice in a series of war-whoops which quickly brought Wabi in, only to see his friend dancing around Minnetaki like one gone crazy. "Forgive you!" he shouted again and again.
Both Minnetaki and her brother had told him more than once of the relentless feud waged against Wabinosh House by this bloodthirsty savage and during the last winter he had come into personal contact with it. He had fought, had seen people die, and had almost fallen a victim to Woonga's vengeance. But it was not of these things that he thought just now.
If we start now, while the water in the creek is deep enough to float our canoe, we can make Wabinosh House in ten or fifteen days." "It will be impossible to paddle against the swift current," said Wabi. "That is true. But we can put John Ball into the canoe and tow him up-stream. It will be a long wade and hard work, but " He looked at Wabi in silence, then added,
"No waste too much shooting on ducks," he advised. "Need shells big game." Several times during the morning the three rested from their exertions, and at noon they ceased paddling for more than an hour while they ate the generous dinner that had been put up for them at Wabinosh House.
A swift messenger brought news of the attack and of the old chief's death to Wabinosh House, and with a dozen men Newsome hastened to the assistance of his betrothed and her people. A counter attack was made upon Woonga and he was driven deep into the wilderness with great loss. Three days later Minnetaki became Newsome's wife at the Hudson Bay Post.
To Minnetaki he wrote three times each week, and three times each week the little maiden at Wabinosh House wrote long, cheering letters to her brother though they came to Wabi only about twice a month, because only so often did the mail-carrier go out from the Post. It was at this time in his lonely school life that Wabigoon became acquainted with Roderick Drew.
If he remained in camp his joints would get stiff, he said, and Wabigoon thought he was right. This left the young Indian to care for the trap-line leading into the north. Two weeks of ideal trapping weather now followed. It had been more than two months since the hunters had left Wabinosh House, and Rod now began to count the days before they would turn back over the homeward trail.
It was accompanied by one from the factor himself, another from the princess mother, and by a tiny note from Minnetaki, who pleaded with the others that Roderick and Mrs. Drew might spend the winter with them at Wabinosh House. "You need not fear about losing your position." wrote Wabigoon. "We shall make more money up here this winter than you could earn in Detroit in three years.
In the second year of his reign at Wabinosh a factor is virtually king in his domain there came to the Post an Indian chief named Wabigoon, and with him his daughter, Minnetaki, in honor of whose beauty and virtue a town was named in after years. Minnetaki was just budding into the early womanhood of her race, and possessed a beauty seldom seen among Indian maidens.
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