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I will take my wife and child, and will return to you again if the great Master of Life allows. If, however, I die or am killed, Waboose will reveal all that is in Weeum's heart. She cannot reveal it now. She will not even understand until a good pale-face visits your tribe. Weeum said no more. He left the mind of Big Otter dark. It is no longer dark. It is now clear as the sun at noon.
"What is the secret, Waboose?" I asked, seeing that she hesitated again and looked at me with another of her searching glances. "I do not know," she replied. "It must indeed be a secret, if none of your people know it, and you don't know it yourself," I returned with a peculiar smile. "It is a written secret, I believe, but I I do not know.
I looked round and beheld Waboose standing close to me with my gun in her hands! "Noble heroine!" I exclaimed, but as I exclaimed it in English she did not understand. She had, indeed, a very slight smattering of that language of which more hereafter but "Noble heroine" was not at that time in her vocabulary!
I suppose he is a great medicine-man, and holds intercourse with the spirit-world." Big Otter paused thoughtfully a few seconds, and then continued: "When he was putting these things in his breast, Waboose caught sight of Attick among the bushes, and pointed him out. Muxbee sprang up and levelled his gun with the two pipes at him, but did not fire. Attick fled and they saw him no more."
I do assure you, reader, that I had no slight difficulty in persuading my father that Eve Liston and Waboose were really the same person. "But the girl's fair," objected my father, when the truth began to force an entrance. "Yes `passing fair," said I. "And with blue eyes and golden hair!" said he. "Even so," said I. "No more like a savage than I am?" said my father. "Much less so," said I.
"Because when I was small I was round and soft," replied the girl, with a slight smile, "like the little animal of that name. He told me that in his own language the animal is called rubbit." "Rabbit, not rubbit," said I, with a laugh. "My father taught me rubbit," returned Waboose, with a simple look, "and he was always right."
We're aboot to draw the seine-net, ye see, an' Tonald Pane said it would be a peety, says he, to begin when ye wur awa', an' Muster Lumley agreet wi' um, an' sent me oot to seek for 'ee that's a'." "Come along then, Dougall, we won't keep them waiting." Nodding adieu to Waboose, I hurried away towards Fort Wichikagan, followed by the sturdy Highlander.
You'll find it better and warmer than a wigwam, and as there are two rooms in it you won't be overcrowded." Big Otter was delighted with this arrangement, and I took him away at once to show him the hut he was to occupy. As this was the first time I had met with the unknown Englishman's widow, and the mother of Waboose, it was with no little interest and curiosity that I regarded her.
"Did Waboose tell Big Otter all this?" asked the old chief. "Yes. Waboose has no secrets from her mother's brother." "And why has Big Otter left the pale-faces, and brought Waboose away from them?" asked Muskrat. "Because he fears for the pale-faces, that Attick will kill them and carry off Waboose.
"I suppose I must," returned my friend, with a sigh, "though it goes against the grain, for I was never very good at penmanship, and we have lost our best scholars too, now that Waboose and her mother are gone." "By the way, that reminds me," said I, "that Waboose gave me the packet which she received from her father not long before he was drowned. Here it is."
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