Peegish squatted in thefront row, with Larpan
lounging this time against the back wall.
She made a soft little noise in her throat, and
lifted the lid from a potby the fire.
But they were aware that they were thereto be
stared at.
In the bow stoodKahdoosh, garbed as no Husky had
been garbed before in that desolateregion. He glanced at his guest, nodded to
Suggemah,and said not a word till he had eaten. He glanced at his guest, nodded to
Suggemah,and said not a word till he had eaten. What did one pay for a red flannel
skirt at the trading-posts? The village watched him without words, but the father of
Peegish wasted nothought on Larpan. He wonderedfor a while if he would see
Murchison, but that possibility was put aside. Kwasinds heart leapt, but not a
muscle of his face moved. Everybody think you big fool get lost and
die.
Now the extraordinary thing had actually happened.
Since when has my brother seen in the dark?
Murchison did as he was bid, it being very easy to
obey. Especially washe learned when it was a matter of the doings and habits of
white men. Very deliberately he filled it and struck a match.
Its naethin but a bit box that the sound comes out
of.
But he felt that alarge, hearty devil might well
lick his lips over such fare. People glanced at him, remarked smilingly that itwas
good advertising, and passed on.
Atokwok told me that he had put his hand through
this thing. Who then will lend me his igloo for the space of a shorttime? When
onehas travelled four hundred miles, one wants to understand.
A voice spoke, saying that all was
ready.
Murchisons hand was in his pocket, when Kwasind
added with a curiousinflexion: Keep it. What did girls of her own age do and look
likein the land he came from?
Toviolate them is to invite the inevitable. But it
wasall quite amicable, with the rules of precedence mutually remembered
andrecognised. Heres twenty-five dollars, and thank you. He knew enough to realise
that the white man wasall-powerful.
Thereis not any trouble in finding a man in the
woods, but here is one that Isee, yet cannot reach. A devil that stuck to a wall,
and could not bescraped off!