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The reply was a bit enigmatical but Ward understood that it signified mutiny. He gasped a few times and then Parker heard Connick exclaim: "Don't ye strike me with that sled-stake, Colonel Gideon, or it might be the worse for ye. I'll not bother your man in the wangan till I find out more about what you're doin' to him but don't you hit me with that stick."
"Then again, it will show that after Mister Railroad Man broke out of the wangan camp he killed the moose to get grub to last him for his trip, bein' afraid to tackle Gid Ward's camps. The boys will be ready to massacree him if they can lay hands on him, but," his tones became ominously significant, "remember your lines now, man! Get away and I'll look after this end."
We saw, as we came along, a high hill, which the natives called Wangan Catta; they said it was three days' walk to it; it lay due east of our course. "On the 29th, we returned on our track for about seven miles, until we reached the first running river we met on our journey to the north.
"Who's runnin' this camp, me or you?" "You're the man, sir." "Well, then, there'll be no invitin' out nor passin' talk. You men have nothin' to do with that chap in that wangan and you'll keep away from him or get your heads broken open. Do you hear what I say? Why don't you come away when I speak?" "I'm not the man to disobey orders," growled Connick. "But I'm a man as likes man's style.
Now load up with the bundles and boxes, the tent, the blanket-roll, the clothes-bag, the provisions all the stuff that is known as "duffel" in New York, and "butins" in French Canada, and "wangan" in Maine stow it all away judiciously so that the two light craft will be well balanced; and then push off, bow paddles, and let us taste the joy of a new stream!
That in this age of law and order Gideon Ward meditated any actual violence to his person Parker found it hard to believe as he sat there in the "wangan" and pondered on his situation. He could not avoid the conclusion that at heart Colonel Ward was a coward. But sometimes circumstances that a brave man will not suffer to rule him will drive a coward into crime.
Connick removed his pipe when the door opened, and gazed under his hand, held edgewise to his forehead. "Why, hello, my bantam boy!" he bawled, in greeting. "What did you break out o' the wangan and run away for?" The fiddle stopped. The men crowded up from the bunks and deacons' seats. All were as curious as magpies. They gazed with interest on Parker's companion.
"Wal," said the cookee, solemnly, "if the r'yal Asiatic tiger meanin' Colonel Gid and the great human Bengal meanin' him as is in the wangan get together in this clearin', I think I'd rather see it from up a tree." And the two were only diverted from their breathless discussion of possibilities by the noisy arrival of Gideon Ward, clamoring for his supper.
Seize that runaway, and throw him into the wangan till I get ready to attend to him!" commanded Ward. The men did not move. "Do as I tell ye!" bawled the colonel. "Twenty dollars to the men fifty dollars to the men who ketch an' tie him for me!" Several rough-looking fellows came elbowing forward, tempted by the reward. Parker raised his gun, but Connick was even quicker.
He had his huge, sharp, jack-knife. The door was strong and thick but he believed that if he attacked the wood vigorously he might be able to whittle out the lock. There were wooden bars on the windows outside and within, rude protection against thieves who might want to ransack the stock of the wangan store. His stout knife would take care of them, too.
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