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This was a fantastic Italian, singing like an angel to the deserted woman. Her eyes were dark; the breast heaved. Oh, these sweet notes were never lost on her. Now at this time, too, Pal Yachy offered a great prize for the first child to be born on Mushrat. He came grinning under his red cap, saying to us, "There are so many dying, should there not be a prize offered for new life?"

But still there was no word of Pal Yachy. That black Italian was not popular at Throat River. "Now I see you are speaking of another man," said Rainbow Pete. Then Shoepack Sam went roaring, it was time for honest men to speak, when an honest woman was being taken by a voice.

I heard it falling on the ledge there, but at this time she did not know that Rainbow Pete was in the room. When she had thrown it, then she saw him, standing behind that demon of a singer. Her eyes were strange then. By the expression of her eyes Pal Yachy saw that he was doomed. He was like a frozen man. "Wait now," said Rainbow Pete, "am I in my house here?"

"So I am thinking," said the little medicine-man, McGregor. "It lies still at the foot of the rainbow." "Ay," said Rainbow Pete; but with this word we went thinking of Pal Yachy. Still we did not speak the name of that Italian. No, this would be stronger in the ear of that sailorman than gunpowder in the valley. "Look you here," said Rainbow Pete. "I am starving. I have not eaten in two days.