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"The railroad camps, where they are putting the new line through, beyond Wekusko." "I know of no camps," said Jan simply. "I know of no railroad, except this that comes to Le Pas. I come from Lac Bain, on the edge of the barren lands." "You have never been down before?" asked the stranger softly. Jan wondered at the light in his eyes. "A long time ago," he said, "for a day.
"You swear that you will follow me that you will come down to the Wekusko? My God, are you telling me the truth, Meleese?" "Yes, yes, I will come to you if you go now." She broke from him and he heard her fumbling at the window. "I will come I will come but not to Wekusko. They will follow you there. Go back to Prince Albert to the hotel where I looked at you through the window.
There was no resistance now, no words, no pleading for him to go; but in her eyes he saw the prayerful entreaty with which she had come to him on the Wekusko trail, and in the quivering red mouth the same torture and love and half-surrender that had burned themselves into his soul there.
He assured himself that he would know when he met them at Le Pas. He would discover more when he became a part of the camp on the Wekusko; that is, if the half-breed's warning held any significance at all, and he believed that it did. Anyway, he would prepare for developments.
Does it dawn on you that I'm going to take you back to the authorities, and that as soon as we reach the Wekusko I'll have twenty men back on the trail of these friends of yours?" A gray pallor spread itself over Jean's thin face. "The great God, M'seur, you can not do that!" "Can not!" Howland's fingers dug into the edge of the table. "By this great God of yours, Croisset, but I will!
Two days before she had been in MacGregor's office, and under the circumstances it was impossible for her to be at Le Pas or at Wekusko, unless she had traveled steadily on dog sledge. Philip swore softly to himself in his disappointment, ate breakfast with the train gang, went to sleep, and awoke when they plowed their way into the snow-smothered outpost on the Saskatchewan.
He reeled rather than walked back to his desk, dropped into a chair and buried his face in his arms, his shoulders shaking like those of a sobbing boy. It was a long time before he looked up, and during these minutes Philip, with his head bowed low to the other, told him of all that had happened in the little room at Wekusko.
However, he assured himself of two things; he was comparatively comfortable, and within two hours at the most they would reach Hodges' headquarters, if the Wekusko camp were really to be their destination. Something must develop then. It had ceased to occur to him that there was peril in his strange position.
"M'seur, I have come to you with a warning. Do not go to Le Pas. Do not go to the big railroad camp on the Wekusko. Return into the South." For an instant he leaned forward, his black eyes flashing, his hands clenched tightly at his sides. "Perhaps you will understand," he cried tensely, "when I tell you this warning is sent to you by the little Meleese!"
If you go to the Wekusko camp you will not live to come back." "The devil!" he exclaimed. "What's that?" asked Gregson, edging around him curiously. Howland crushed the note in his hand and thrust it into one of his pockets. "A little private affair," he laughed. "Comes Gregson, let's see what we can discover."
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