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Updated: August 9, 2024
I hadn't seen him since he was a kid, but I knew him straight off because he looks so much like Kate Miss Farley I mean and I called him outside and had a talk with him. He was mighty uppy at first, and threw it into me so hard that I had to turn in and whale some sense into him." "That's one way of doing it," said Ted dryly. "It was the only way for him.
The white race and the black the sharp profile and the broad lip the springing instep and the protuberant heel have been having a long tussle, with the probabilities for a while all on the side of the white: to-day the struggle is doubtful if not decided in favor of the black. "Here we go, up up uppy!
It was almost funny to see Uppy's understanding liven up at the point of the gun, and she felt a thrill that tingled to her finger-tips. The little devils of adventure were wide-awake in her, and, smiling at Uppy, she told him to hold up the end of his driving whip. He obeyed.
"If I fire again, I am quite positive that I shall kill you!" The Eskimos had not moved. They were like three lifeless, staring gargoyles. For another second or two Blake stood clutching at his arm. Then he said, "Uppy, put the dog meat and the kindlings on the big sledge and drive like hell for Fort Confidence!"
Dolores herself picked out one of the largest and tossed it to Wapi. Then she sat down again and began to talk to Peter, bundled up in his furs. After a time they ate, and drank hot tea, and after he had devoured a chunk of raw meat the size of his two fists, Uppy rolled himself in his sleeping bag near the dogs. A little at a time Wapi dragged himself nearer until his head lay on Dolores' coat.
And then, before she could stop him, he followed up his words swiftly and furiously in Eskimo. "Stop!" She almost shrieked the one word of warning, and with it a second shot burned its way through the flesh of Blake's shoulder and he went down. The revolver turned on Uppy, and instantly he was electrified into life.
The revolver flashed, and a muffled yell came from him as he felt the shock of the bullet as it struck fairly against the butt of his whip. In the same instant there came a snarling deep-throated growl from Wapi. From the sledge Peter gave a cry of warning. Uppy shrank back, and Dolores cried out sharply and put herself swiftly between Wapi and the Eskimo.
Uppy and one of the companions made their exit instantly and in great haste. "The fools!" he apologized. "One has to watch them like children, Mrs. Keith. Pardon me while I help them." She waited until he followed Uppy into the cabin. Then, with the remaining Eskimo staring at her in wonderment, she carried an extra bearskin, the small tent, and a narwhal grub-sack to Peter's sledge.
The growl had grown into a snarl in Wapi's throat. "I think they are coming," said Peter calmly. "You'd better rouse Uppy. He hasn't moved in the last two hours." Something that was like a sob came from Dolores' lips as she stood up. "They're not coming," she whispered. "They've stopped and they're building a fire!"
And Rydal is going to have her. Unless I miss my guess, there's going to be money in it for us a lot of it. The funny part of it is, Rydal's got to get rid of her husband. And how's he going to do it, Uppy? Eh? Answer me that. How's he going to do it?" In a hole he had dug for himself in the drifted snow under a huge scarp of ice a hundred yards from the igloo cabin lay Wapi.
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