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The Wild-Cat Pass, through which they were speedily picking their steps, in order to get a view of the country beyond, was not inappropriately named; for it seemed, at the first glance of those who entered it, as if no creature less savagely reckless than a cat could, by any possibility, scramble through it without the aid of wings.
"You and your band are here safe, I perceive; and by ! you have timed it well, too, for we have only headed you by half an hour." "Ugh!" grunted Wild-cat, with that look and gutteral sound peculiar to the Indian. "Kitchokema has learned Peshewa is here!" "Come! come!" answered the renegade, in a somewhat nettled manner; "no insinuations! I saw Peshewa when he arrived."
Bell, measuring his words, "do you recollect that wild-cat gold mine scheme you were interested in more years ago than you'll care to remember?" Mortlake seemed to shrivel. But he flared up in a last blaze of defiance. "You can't scare me by rattling old bones," he said, "What do you know about it?" For reply, Mr. Bell stepped to the door. "Mr.
Dick was right, for when the wild-cat saw the stores broken into for dinner he came down for his portion of meat and then curled up for a nap on his canvas in the canoe. Tom tolerated Ned, but never permitted any familiarities from him, while Dick could handle him as he chose and the lynx only smiled, in his own fashion.
The boy cast his gaze upward into the branches, feeling as though one of the terrible creatures, with which he had engaged in so desperate a struggle that very morning, was even then watching him from the foliage. And he was indeed being watched, and by eyes well nigh as keen as those of the wild-cat.
He had cut off the bend in the creek by running over the hill, and, accompanied by the farmer, who happened to be down in the woods hunting rabbits, they had arrived just in time to shoot the wild-cat and drag me out of the water. That was the last time I played truant.
"I thought at first sight," continued he, "it was our Louisiana wild-cat or bay lynx, as Luce calls it, for it is very like our cat; but I saw it was nearly twice as big, and more greyish in the fur. Well, when I first sighted the creature, it was about an hundred yards off.
"You little wild-cat! You think you can defy me do you?" And then her arms held and her despairing eyes looking down into his mocking ones and the helpless sense of indignity and wrong and of her own utter and criminal folly. And through her memory there ran in an ugly dance those things, those monstrous things, he had said to her about the Scotch woman.
"You will go away, and I shall be left here all alone." Wild-Cat, too, the fat, jolly Wild-Cat, gave way to the most audible lamentations. "Oh, my little brother," he said to the baby, on the morning of our departure, when he had insisted on taking him and seating him on his fat, dirty knee, "you will never come back to see your poor brother again!"
The priest's quick eye had taken in the lighted candles at the little shrine, even as he saw the painfully changed aspect of the man. "The wife and child, Bagot?" he asked, looking round. "Ah, the boy!" he added, and going toward the bed, continued, presently, in a low voice: "Dominique is ill?" Bagot nodded, and then answered: "A wild-cat and then fever, Father Corraine."
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