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"I should think you would run him out of camp," said I. "Well, we've studied over that some," McLean answered. "But what's to be done with Willomene?" I did not know. None of us seemed to know. "The boys got together night before last," continued McLean, "and after holdin' a unanimous meetin', we visited her and spoke to her about goin' back to her home.
They claim if a bear or an elk strays in from below, and the caves sets up their coughin', which they don't regular every day, the animals die. I have seen it come in two seconds. And when it comes that-a-way risin' upon yu' with that fluffy kind of a sigh, yu' feel mighty lonesome, seh. "So Hank he happened to look back and see Willomene hangin' at the aidge o' them black rocks.
"'You say to me you have a house to live in, says Willomene. 'Where is that house? "'I did not figure on gettin' a woman when I left camp, says Hank, grinnin', but not pleasant, 'or I'd have hurried up with the shack I'm a buildin'. "He was buildin' one. When I left Galena Creek and come away from that country to meet you, the house was finished enough for the couple to move in.
Yu'd cert'nly never have conjectured them two was a weddin' journey. He was leadin', but skewed around in his saddle to jaw back at Willomene for riding so ignorant. Suppose it was a thing she was responsible for, yu'd not have talked to her that-a-way even in private; and hyeh was the camp a-lookin', and a-listenin', and some of us ashamed.
And when Hank comes back from spendin' his dust, he sees the crucifix same as always, and he says, 'Didn't I tell yu' to take that down? 'You did, says Willomene, lookin' at him very quiet. And he quit. "And Honey Wiggin says to him, 'Hank, leave her alone. And Hank, bein' all trembly from spreein' in town, he says, 'You're all agin me! like as if he were a baby."
We had a good crowd still, and it was pleasant, and not too lively nor yet too slow. And Willomene, she come more among us. She'd not stay shut in-doors, like she done at first. I'd have like to've showed her how to punish Hank." "Afteh she had downed yu' with her eye?" inquired the Virginian. Young McLean reddened, and threw a furtive look upon me, the stranger, the outsider.
But the lady seemed to relish hustlin' herself into a rage. She got tolerable conspicuous, too. And after a heap o' words, 'You are discharged, she says; and off she struts. Soon her husband came out to Willomene, still standin' like statuary, and he pays her a good sum of cash, and he goes away, and she keeps a standing yet for a spell.
And all the while that we were at this search the parrot remained crouched in the bottom of his cage, his black eye fixed upon our movements. "She has carried him," said the Virginian. "We must follow up Willomene." The latest heavy set of footprints led us from the door along the ditch, where they sank deep in the softer soil; then they turned off sharply into the mountains.
They had been coming home from hunting, and had plainly heard a shot here. We stood for a moment more after learning this, and then one of the men called out the names of Hank and Willomene. Again we or I at least felt that same silence, which to my disturbed imagination seemed to be rising round us as mists rise from water. "There's nobody in there," stated the Virginian.
The son-of-a-gun hollad so freely at the bank, the president awde'd the cashier to get shed of the out-ragious bird, or he would wring its neck. "So Hank and Willomene stayed a week up in Livingston on her money, and then he fetched her back to Gardner, and bought their grub, and bride and groom came up to the camp we had on Galena Creek. "She had never slep' out before.
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