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Updated: June 19, 2025
And what is the difference between warsling below the water wi' a stane about your neck, and wavering in the wind wi' a tether round it? it's but choking after a', and he drees the doom he ettled for me.
It has now disappeared, but I remember it in its dreary old age, standing alone on the moor, with its grim gables and its loupin'-on stane, just the sort of place where, in the romances, the horrified traveller used to observe a trap-door in his bedroom floor, and at supper picked the finger of a murdered man out of a mutton-pie.
An hour passed, and then glancing at her Stane saw that she had fallen asleep. A little smile came on his face, and was followed by an ardent look of admiration as he continued to stare at her. She was flushed with sleep, and grimy with sweat and smoke and dirt.
For that night, whilst she slept in the little tent, and Stane, wrapped in a blanket, slumbered on a bed of spruce-boughs, perhaps half-a-dozen yards away, a man crept cautiously between the trees in the rear of the encampment, and stood looking at it with covetous eyes.
"Tomorrow I shall build a shack of boughs and bark like one I watched an Indian building, down on the Peace river. It will be exhilarating to be architect and builder and tenant all in one! But for tonight it is 'God's green caravanserai' for me, and I hope there won't be any trespassers, wolves or bears and such-like beasts." "There may be mice!" laughed Stane. "Mice!"
Stane lay there wondering if it had anything to do with Miskodeed, and finally, recalling the girl's dramatic appearance at the very moment when he had been stricken down, decided that it had. "What are you going to do with me?" he inquired after an interval. "Nothing," replied the Indian. "At the end of five days thou wilt be set free, and the canoe follows behind." "But why "
It ees better dat we watch in turn." Stane admitted the wisdom of this, and since he felt that it was impossible for himself to sit still, and suspected that his companion was sadly in need of rest, he elected to keep the first watch. "Very well, Jean, do you go and rest first; but tell me before you go where the party we are looking for should strike the lake."
"It will be as well," agreed Stane, as he began to circle round the cabin again. "Indians are not always law-abiding, particularly in the North here. In any case we must try and find out where this one comes from, for if he is friendly we may be able to get dogs, and with dogs our journey to civilization will be easy."
I was turnt to stane, like,'at I didna believe I cud hae fa'en frae the cheir gien I had swarfed clean awa'. An' eh but it tuik a time to open that door!
"Winter is here!" said Helen, a little sobered at the sight of the white pall. "Yes," he answered. "You found this hut just in time." No more snow fell for over a fortnight, and during that time, despite the cold, Stane spent many hours practising walking without crutches.
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