Part 8 (1/2)
”True, but another tiht say more, therefore the less you speak it the better He is the kind who sees lish unless we are alone”
”I do not like that le's, and he has no heart”
Suddenly she dropped her work and came close up to him ”Can he be the one?”
”I don't know Stark is not the nah”
”Who is this man Stark?”
”I don't know that, either I used to hear of him when I was in British Columbia”
”But surely you must know if he is the same--she must have told you how he looked--others must have told you--”
Gale shook his head ”Very little I could not ask her, and others knew him so well they never doubted that I had seen him; but this much I do know, he was dark--”
”This man is dark--”
”--and his spirit was like that of a mad horse--”
”This man's temper is black--”
”--and his eyes were cruel”
”This e,” said the trader
”This man is forty years old It must be he,” said the squaw
Even Necia would have e, for his hair and broere grizzled, and his face had the look of a man of sixty, while only those who knew hith and the endurance that belied his appearance
”We will send Necia down to the Mission to-night, and let Father Barnuoes,” said the squaw, after some deliberation
”No, she must stay here,” Gale replied, with decision ”The ood to send her away, and, after all, what is to be will be But she ain, at least, not till I learn more about this Stark It makes no difference whether this one is the man or not; he will come and I shall know hi short, and now I know it”
”No, no!” Alluna cried; ”we have no strangers here No white men except the soldiers and this one have co-post”
”It was yesterday, but it isn't to-day Lee has e Carmack made on the Klondike He ca back with hi or it will start a stareatutterly the momentous news
”Yes Flambeau will be another Dawson if this find is what Lee thinks it is I stayed away from the Upper Country because I kneds of ht be aer, there's no other place for us to go If Lee has got a mine, I'll have the one next to it, for ill be the first ones on the ground What happens after that won't matter much, you four will be provided for We are to leave in an hour, one at a time, to avoid comment”
”But why did this man stop here?” insisted the woo to Dawson?”
”He's a friend of Lee's He is going with us” Then he added, almost in a whisper, ”Before we return I shall know”
Alluna seized his arm ”Promise to come back, John! Promise that you will come back even if this should be the man”