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On first hearing this a deadly paleness overspread her face, for she imagined that the white people killed must be her own kindred; but Wapaw quickly relieved her mind on this point. After this he devoted himself entirely to the roasted bird, and Nelly related to him, as well as she could, the particulars of her own and Roy's escape from the Indians.
"Wapaw is dead," said a deep voice, as the huge form of a western hunter darkened the little doorway, and the next moment Slugs strode into the store, and quietly seated himself on the counter. "Dead!" exclaimed Robin, as he shook the hunter's proffered hand. "Ay, dead!
Robin sat at the foot, supported by the White Swan on his right, and Wapaw on his left. Ranged between these were Walter, Slugs, the Black Swan, Jeff Gore, Obadiah Stiff, the two other strangers who came with Jeff, and Larry O'Dowd for Larry acted the part of cook only, and did not pretend to "wait." After he had placed the viands on the table, he sat down with the rest.
True for ye it's naither walkin', starvin', nor cowld, as'll kill Wapaw." "What does the Black Swan think?" inquired Robin. "We shall see Wapaw when the sun is low to-morrow," replied the Indian. "Mayhap we shall," quoth Robin, "but it behooves us to get the steam up for to-morrow: so, comrades, as there's a good clump o' timber here away, we'll camp."
Roy's idea of the number of languages "on earth" was very limited. "Och! don't bother him, see, here is a lingo that every wan onderstan's," cried Larry, carrying a can of hot soup towards Wapaw. "Oh, let me! do let me!" cried Nelly, jumping up and seizing the can. "Be all manes," said Larry, resigning it.
Poor fellow! he was a brave man; and I've no doubt did it a-purpose, knowin' that I couldn't run fast enough with him. Just then I saw Hawk come jumpin' and yellin' at us, followed by two or three dozen redskins, all flourishin' their tomahawks. Macdonell and me turned to die fightin' alongside o' our red comrade, but Wapaw suddenly sprang up, uttered a shout of defiance, an' dashed into the bush.
"Right, lad, yer right!" said Slugs, who had taken another long look at the object in question; "I see somethin' like a broken tree near the top o' the precipice. I hope Wapaw hain't gone an' tumbled over that cliff." This supposition was received in silence and with grave looks, for all felt that the thing was not impossible, but the Indian shook his head.
He often made long and rapid marches from his lonely dwelling sometimes staying away a week or two at a time even in winter; so that Wapaw thought himself nearer Fort Enterprise than he really was, when he first discovered the bold hunter's tracks.
But Wapaw was a very different man, when he quitted his tribe, from what he was at the time we introduce him to our reader.
"It's just the reptiles; there's forty of 'em if there's one, an' they've got a white man bound with 'em; no doubt from what you said of him, Slugs, it's Macdonell; but I don't see Wapaw. I fear me that his days are over. Now, then, lads, here's our plan: we'll attack them from six different points at once.
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