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"They don't propose to start firing till they get all their legal ammunition ready, and that's why they've been waitin'. We're goin' to see warm times on the Spinnaker waters." For that matter the daily newspaper brought to snow-heaped Sunkhaze intelligence of "warm times" at the hearing.
The Sunkhaze contingent rubbed elbows significantly, mumbled in conference, and scuffled slowly toward the shore. "Are you going to back down, men?" Parker shouted. "We've got wives an' children an' houses up there, mister," said a voice from the crowd, "an' it's a cold night to be turned out-o'-doors. We know these fellers better'n what you do."
"How far is it up the lake to Poquette?" he asked the agent. "Sixteen miles." An hour later Parker, after a tour of inspection, had settled his problem of transportation in his own mind. His plan was ingenious. There were half a dozen men available in Sunkhaze, and more were arriving daily, straggling down from the woods or roaring in fresh from the city, hurrying on the way up.
Of course, we hope we shall need only an engineer and not a warrior at Poquette, and we trust that Ward will be tractable and all that; but, Whittaker, if we're going to build that road, and are not to be backed down in such a way that we'll never dare to show our faces before the grinning natives at Sunkhaze then we need to send along a chap like " "Mr.
"Why, he said ye was a little white-livered sneak that wouldn't dare to put up your hands to a Sunkhaze mosquito of the June breed, an' that ye were tryin' to come in here an' do business amongst real men. I couldn't stand that, I couldn't!" "But my business my reasons for being here my responsibilities!" cried Parker. "I see he must have lied about that part of it."
"It took us some little time to wake up enough to know how much we needed a railroad acrost here," said Dan, "but now that we're awake we propose to let folks know it. Them whose hearin' is sensitive had better take to the tall timber that day." Parker met his party at Sunkhaze station on the morning of the great occasion.
"Another time Ward got what he deserved down at Sunkhaze. A man opened a store there and put in a plate-glass window, being anxious to show a bit of progress.
"Much travel over the Poquette Carry?" asked Whittaker. "Good deal," said Rowe. "It's the thoroughfare between the West Branch and Spinnaker, you know. All the men for the woods leave the train at Sunkhaze, boat it across Spinnaker, and walk the carry at Poquette. All the supplies for the camp come that way, too. They bateau goods up the river from the West Branch end of the carry."
"He comes along to me as I was choppin'," related Miles to the Sunkhaze postmaster, "and he yowls, 'Git to goin' there, man, git to goin'! 'An', says I, 'sure, an' I'll not yank the ax back till it's done cuttin'. An' then he" Miles put his finger carefully against the puffiness under his eye, "he hit me."
He felt that the giant would now take satisfactory vengeance for the discomfiture he had suffered before his men at Sunkhaze. Connick raised his hand, that in its big mitten seemed like a cloud against the moon, and brought it down.
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