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This had gone broadcast throughout the city, he told himself, and now what could he do but marry Gerelda; otherwise it would subject her to the severest criticism, and himself to scorn. A woman's good name was at stake. Was he not in honor bound to shield her? He would have been startled had he but known that this newspaper article was the work of Mrs. Northrup.
His son, Josiah Northrup, who was afterwards a justice of the peace for many years, having been elected at the first town meeting, a prominent man in town affairs and a leading member of the Baptist church, was, at the time of his father's coming, about fourteen years of age; he died in 1844. The farm now occupied by the Niles family was settled by Abner Mack, a Rhode Island man.
Captain Frazier looked narrowly at his companion for an instant, then he asked, quickly: "Again I ask your pardon for the questions I wish to put to you, but are you not the same minister who was sent to perform the marriage ceremony up at the Thousand Islands? and, again, the same minister who, later on, united Mr. Varrick in marriage to the beautiful Gerelda Northrup?"
Food of many kinds was sent from the nearest settlement to feast the hungry men who had so bravely struggled through the Grand Canyon. George Northrup was but a boy of fifteen when his father died. Having nothing to keep him at home, he went to the Indian country, which at that time was in Minnesota.
Scarcely had I managed, helped by the second mate, Aaron Northrup, to lower away half-a-dozen barrels and kegs, when all cried from the boat that they were casting off. Good reason they had. Down upon us from windward was drifting a towering ice-mountain, while to leeward, close aboard, was another ice-mountain upon which we were driving. Quicker in his leap was Aaron Northrup.
In fact, it was almost like getting acquainted with him over again; and to add insult to injury, as he took my hand for an instant at parting, he said, 'Good-night, Miss Northrup. Oh! what shall I do, mamma advise me! Ought I to give him up?" "No," said Mrs. Northrup, sternly, "that would never do. That marriage must take place!" "Do you hear me, Gerelda?" repeated Mrs. Northrup.
It would be more comfortable in the sternsheets than in the narrow bow. And further, it would be well to be near the afterguard in whatever troubles that were sure to arise under such circumstances in the days to come. In the sternsheets were the mate, Walter Drake, the surgeon, Arnold Bentham, Aaron Northrup, and Captain Nicholl, who was steering.
George quickly replied in their language, "Stop! If any man comes one step nearer, I will kill him. Tell me whether this is a war party or a hunting party." One of the Indians stepped out in front and fired off both barrels of his gun. This was a sign of friendship. Northrup did not think this offer of peace worth much; but, if he refused it, he would have to fight against thirteen Indians.
Not to starvation but to the killing cold and exposure were those earlier deaths due. It was a matter of the survival of the toughest and the luckiest. I was tough by constitution, and lucky inasmuch as I was warmly clad and had not broken my leg like Aaron Northrup. Even so, so strong was he that, despite being the first to be severely frozen, he was days in passing. Vance Hathaway was the first.
"He was one of the men that robbed you later!" she exclaimed. "Yes. And now he has tried to rob me again and has paid for it with his life." Her mind flashed back over the past. "Then his partner in this last crime must have been the same man what's his name? that was with him last time." "Northrup." He nodded slowly. "I hate to believe it, but it is probably true.
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