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People glanced at him, remarked smilingly that itwas good advertising, and
passed on. Kahdoosh stared, and when the cook went forward he peered inthrough
the galley window.
For one thing, there were enough white men as mattersstood.
His magic could not getthrough the fur of a single seal. Suddenly he stepped
forward, put out an arm like an ironbar, and touched someone on the
shoulder.
Thereis not any trouble in finding a man in the woods, but here is
one that Isee, yet cannot reach.
You keep fire-wagon at home your country. Id
rather like it, chuckled Murchison, and if I didnt Id move theteepee. He was
aware of this, and a good deal more. He put it this way becauseall men who are
tired cover about the same distance in a given time.
Also, she reflected,Larpan
would help to pass the time. Yet there is, and I who speak to you have seen it.
Twenty-four hours later he lifted the flap of the teepee on Lac Seul
andmotioned the stranger in. He whispered it toSuggemah, and she too stared
hard. What did one pay for a red flannel skirt at the trading-posts?
I am a
better hunter than Larpan, he said gravely, but not so greata man.
To be
desired by two men, both of prominence in the tribe,meant much to any girl in
Greenland. What did girls of her own age do and look likein the land he came
from? Kahdoosh, staring, remembered that on sucha ship as this Larpan had
learned his tricks.
His rival stared, while Macgovan glanced at him curiously.
He looked at Larpan out of thecorner of his eye while he spoke.
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