"Bad men?" I asked Little Fellow, pointing to the prisoners, as our crews exchanged rousing cheers with the Nor'-Westers now bound for Montreal.
"Non, Monsieur! Not all bad men," and the Indian gave his shoulders an expressive12 shrug13, "Les traitres anglais."
To the French voyageur, English meant the Hudson's Bay people. The answer set me wondering to what pass things had come between the two great companies that they were shipping14 each other's traders gratuitously15 out of the country. I recalled the talk at the Quebec Club about Governor McDonell of the Hudson's Bay trying to expel Nor'-Westers and concluded our people could play their own game against the commander of Red River.
We arrived in Fort William at sundown, and a flag was flying above the courtyard.
"Is that in our honor?" I asked a clerk of the party.
"Not much it is," he laughed. "We under-strappers aren't oppressed with honors! It warns the Indians there's no trade one day out of seven."
"Is this Sunday?"[Pg 101]
I suddenly recollected16 as far as we were concerned the past month had been entirely17 composed of week-days.
"Out of your reckoning already?" asked the clerk with surprise. "Wonder how you'll feel when you've had ten years of it."
Situated18 on the river bank, near the site of an old French post, Fort William was a typical traders' stronghold. Wooden palisades twenty feet high ran round the whole fort and the inner court enclosed at least two hundred square yards. Heavily built block-houses with guns poking19 through window slits20 gave a military air to the trading post. The block-houses were apparently21 to repel22 attack from the rear and the face of the fort commanded the river. Stores, halls, warehouses23 and living apartments for an army of clerks, were banked against the walls, and the main building with its spacious24 assembly-room stood conspicuous25 in the centre of the enclosure. As we entered the courtyard, one of the chief traders was perched on a mortar26 in the gate. The little magnate condescended27 never a smile of welcome till the Bourgeois28 came up. Then he fawned29 loudly over the chiefs and conducted them with noisy ostentation30 to the main hall. Indians and half-breed voyageurs quickly dispersed32 among the wigwams outside the pickets33, while clerks and traders hurried to the broad-raftered dining-hall. Fatigued34 from the trip, I took little notice of the vociferous35 interchange of news in passage-way and over door-steps. I remember, after supper I was strolling[Pg 102] about the courtyard, surveying the buildings, when at the door of a sort of barracks where residents of the fort lived, I caught sight of the most grateful object my eye had lighted upon since leaving Quebec. It was a tin basin with a large bar of soap—actual soap. There must still have been some vestige36 of civilization in my nature, for after a delightful37 half-hour's intimate acquaintance with that soap, I came round to the groups of men rehabilitated38 in self-respect.
"Athabasca, Rocky Mountain and Saskatchewan brigades here to-morrow," remarked a boyish looking Nor'-Wester, with a mannish beard on his face. Involuntarily I put my hand to my chin and found a bristling39 growth there. That was a land where young men could become suddenly very old; and many a trader has discovered other signs of age than a beard on his face when he first looked at a mirror after life in the Pays d'En Haut.
"I say," blurted40 out another young clerk. "There's a man here from Red River, one of the Selkirk settlers. He's come with word if we'll supply the boats, lots of the colonists41 are ready to dig out. General Assembly's going to consider that to-morrow."
"Oh! Hang the old Assembly if it ships that man out! He's got a pretty daughter, perfect beauty, and she's here with him!" exclaimed the lad with the mannish beard.
"Go to, thou light-head!" declared the other youth, with the air of an elder in Israel. "Go[Pg 103] to! You paraded beneath her window for an hour to-day and she never once laid eyes on you."
All the men laughed.
"Hang it!" said the first speaker. "We don't display our little amours——"
"No," broke in the other, "we just display our little contours and get snubbed, eh?"
The bearded youth flushed at the sally of laughter.
"Hang it!" he answered, pulling fiercely at his moustache. "She is a bit of statuary, so she is, as cold as marble. But there is no law against looking at a pretty bit of statuary, when it frames itself in a window in this wilderness42."
To which, every man of the crowd said a hearty43 amen; and I walked off to stretch myself full length on a bench, resolving to have out a mirror from my packing case and get rid of those bristles44 that offended my chin. The men began to disperse31 to their quarters. The tardy45 twilight46 of the long summer evenings, peculiar47 to the far north, was gathering48 in the courtyard. As the night-wind sighed past, I felt the velvet49 caress50 of warm June air on my face and memory reverted51 to the innocent boyhood days of Laval. How far away those days seemed! Yet it was not so long ago. Surely it is knowledge, not time, that ages one, knowledge, that takes away the trusting innocence52 resulting from ignorance and gives in its place the distrustful innocence resulting from wisdom. I thought of the temptations that had come to me in the few short weeks I had been[Pg 104] adrift, and how feebly I had resisted them. I asked myself if there were not in the moral compass of men, who wander by land, some guiding star, as there is for those who wander over sea. I gazed high above the sloping roofs for some sign of moon, or star. The sky was darkling and overcast53; but in lowering my eyes from heaven to earth, I saw what I had missed before—a fair, white face framed in a window above the stoop directly opposite my bench. The face seemed to have a background of gold; for a wonderful mass of wavy54 hair clustered down from the blue-veined brow to the bit of white throat visible, where a gauzy piece of neck wear had been loosened. Evidently, this was the statuary described by the whiskered youth. But the statuary breathed. A bloom of living apple-blossoms was on the cheeks. The brows were black and arched. The very pose of the head was arch, and in the lips was a suggestion of archery, too,—Cupid's archery, though the upper lip was drawn55 almost too tight for the bow beneath to discharge the little god's shaft56. Why did I do it? I do not know. Ask the young Nor'-Wester, who had worn a path beneath the selfsame window that very day, or the hosts of young men, who are still wearing paths beneath windows to this very day. I coughed and sat bolt upright on the bench with unnecessarily loud intimations of my presence. The fringe of black lashes57 did not even lift. I rose and with great show of indifference58 paraded solemnly five times past that window; but, in[Pg 105] spite of my pompous59 indifference, by a sort of side-signalling, I learned that the owner of the heavy lashes was unaware60 of my existence. Thereupon, I sat down again. It was a bit of statuary and a very pretty bit of statuary. As the youth said, there was no law against looking at a bit of statuary in this wilderness, and as the statuary did not know I was looking at it, I sat back to take my fill of that vision framed in the open window. The statuary, unknown to itself, had full meed of revenge; for it presently brought such a flood of longing61 to my heart, longings62, not for this face, but for what this face represented—the innocence and love and purity of home, that I bowed dejectedly forward with moist eyes gazing at the ground.
"Hullo!" whispered a deep voice in my ear. "Are you mooning after the Little Statue already?"
When I looked up, the man had passed, but the head in the window was leaning out and a pair of swimming, lustrous63, gray eyes were gazing forward in a way that made me dizzy. "Ah," they said in a language that needed no speaking, "there are two of us, very, very home-sick."
"The guiding star for my moral compass," said I, under my breath.
Then the statue in a live fashion suddenly drew back into the dark room. The window-shutter flung to, with a bang, and my vision was gone. I left the bench, made a shake-down on one of the store counters, and knew nothing more till the[Pg 106] noise of brigades from the far north aroused the fort at an early hour Monday morning. The arrival of the Athabasca traders was the signal for tremendous activity. An army returning from victory could not have been received with greater acclaim64. Bourgeois and clerks tumbled promiscuously65 from every nook in the fort and rushing half-dressed towards the gates shouted welcome to the men, who had come from the outposts of the known world. They were a shaggy, ragged-looking rabble66, those traders from mountain fastnesses and the Arctic circle. With long white hair, hatless some of them, with beards like oriental patriarchs, and dressed entirely in skins of the chase, from fringed coats to gorgeous moccasins, the unkempt monarchs67 of northern realms had the imperious bearing of princes.
"Is it you, really you, looking as old as your great grandfather? By Gad11! So it is," came from one quondam friend.
"Powers above!" ejaculated another onlooker68, "See that old Father Abraham! It's Tait! As you live, it's Tait! And he only went to the Athabasca ten years ago. He was thirty then, and now he's a hundred!"
"That's Wilson," says another. "Looks thin, doesn't he? Slim fare! He's the only man from Great Slave Lake that escaped being a meal for the Crees,—year of the famine; and they hadn't time to pick his bones!"
A running fire of such comments went along the spectators lining69 each side of the path. There[Pg 107] was a sad side to the clamorous70 welcomes and handshakes and surprised recognitions. Had not these men gone north young and full of hope, as I was going? Now, news of the feud71 with the Hudson's Bay brought them out old before their time and more like the natives with whom they had traded than the white race they had left. Here and there, strong men would fall in each other's arms and embrace like school-girls, covering their emotion with rounded oaths instead of terms of endearment72.
All day the confusion of unloading boats continued. The dull tread of moccasined feet as Indians carried pack after pack from river bank to the fort, was ceaseless. Faster than the clerks could sort the furs great bundles were heaped on the floor. By noon, warehouses were crammed73 from basement to attic74. Ermine taken in mid-winter, when the fur was spotlessly white, but for the jet tail-tip, otter75 cut so deftly76 scarcely a tuft of fur had been wasted along the opened seam, silver fox, which had made the fortune of some lucky hunter—these and other rare furs, that were to minister to the luxury of kings, passed from tawny77 carriers to sorters. Elsewhere, coarse furs, obtained at greater risk, but owing to the abundance of big game, less valuable for the hunter, were sorted and valued. With a reckless underestimate of the beaver-skin, their unit of currency, Indians hung over counters bartering78 away the season's hunt. I frankly79 acknowledge the Company's clerks on such occasions could do a rushing[Pg 108] business selling tawdry stuff at fabulous80 prices.
Meanwhile, in the main hall, the Bourgeois, or partners, of the great North-West Company were holding their annual General Assembly behind closed doors. Clerks lowered their voices when they passed that room, and well they might; for the rulers inside held despotic sway over a domain81 as large as Europe. And what were they decreeing? Who can tell? The archives of the great fur companies are as jealously guarded as diplomatic documents, and more remarkable82 for what they omit than what they state. Was the policy, that ended so tragically83 a year afterwards, adopted at this meeting? Great corporations have a fashion of keeping their mouths and their council doors tight shut and of leaving the public to infer that catastrophes85 come causeless. However that may be, I know that Duncan Cameron, a fiery86 Highlander87 and one of the keenest men in the North-West service, suddenly flung out of the Assembly room with a pleased, determined88 look on his ruddy face.
"Are ye Rufus Gillespie?" he asked.
"That's my name, Sir."
"Then buckle89 on y'r armor, lad; for ye'll see the thick of the fight. You're appointed to my department at Red River." And he left us.
"Lucky dog! I envy you! There'll be rare sport between Cameron and McDonell, when the two forts up in Red River begin to talk back to each other," exclaimed a Fort William man to me.[Pg 109]
"Are you Gillespie?" asked a low, mellow90, musical voice by my side. I turned to face a tall, dark, wiry man, with the swarthy complexion91 and intensely black eyes of one having strains of native blood. Among the voyageurs, I had become accustomed to the soft-spoken, melodious93 speech that betrays Indian parentage; and I believe if I were to encounter a descendant of the red race in China, or among the Latin peoples of Southern Europe, I could recognize Indian blood by that rhythmic94 trick of the native tongue.
"I'm Gillespie," I answered my keen-eyed questioner. "Who are you?"
"Cuthbert Grant, warden95 of the plains and leader of the Bois-Brulés," was his terse96 response. "You're coming to our department at Fort Gibraltar, and I want you to give Father Holland a place in your canoes to come north with us. He's on his way to the Missouri."
At that instant Duncan Cameron came up to Grant and muttered something. Both men at once went back to the council hall of the General Assembly. I heard the courtyard gossips vowing97 that the Hudson's Bay would cease its aggressions, now that Cameron and Cuthbert Grant were to lead the Nor'-Westers; but I made no inquiry98. Next to keeping his own counsel and giving credence99 to no man, the fur trader learns to gain information only with ears and eyes, and to ask no questions. The scurrying100 turmoil101 in the fort lasted all day. At dusk, natives were expelled from the stockades102 and work stopped.[Pg 110]
Grand was the foregathering around the supper table of the great dining hall that night. Bourgeois, clerks and traders from afar, explorers, from the four corners of the earth—assembled four hundred strong, buoyant and unrestrained, enthusiastically loyal to the company, and tingling103 with hilarious104 fellowship over this, the first reunion for twenty years. Though their manner and clothing be uncouth105, men who have passed a lifetime exploring northern wilds have that to say, which is worth hearing. So the feast was prolonged till candles sputtered106 low and pitch-pine fagots flared107 out. Indeed, before the gathering broke up, flagons as well as candles had to be renewed. Lanterns swung from the black rafters of the ceiling. Tallow candles stood in solemn rows down the centre of each table, showing that men, not women, had prepared the banquet. Stuck in iron brackets against the walls were pine torches, that had been dipped in some resinous108 mixture and now flamed brightly with a smell not unlike incense109. Tables lined the four walls of the hall and ran in the form of a cross athwart the middle of the room. Backless benches were on both sides of every table. At the end, chairs were placed, the seats of honor for famous Bourgeois. British flags had been draped across windows and colored bunting hung from rafter to rafter.
"Ah, mon! Is no this fine? This is worth living for! This is the company to serve!" Duncan Cameron exclaimed as he sank into one of the chairs at the head of the centre table. The[Pg 111] Scotchman's heart softened110 before those platters of venison and wild fowl111, and he almost broke into geniality112. "Here, Gillespie, to my right," he called, motioning me to the edge of the bench at his elbow. "Here, Grant, opposite Gillespie! Aye! an' is that you, Father Holland?" he cried to the stout113, jovial114 priest, with shining brow and cheeks wrinkling in laughter, who followed Grant. "There's a place o' honor for men like you, Sir. Here!" and he gave the priest a chair beside himself.
The Bourgeois seated, there was a scramble115 for the benches. Then the whole company with great zest116 and much noisy talk fell upon the viands117 with a will.
"Why, Cameron," began a northern winterer a few places below me, "it's taken me three months fast travelling to come from McKenzie River to Fort William. By Jove! Sir, 'twas cold enough to freeze your words solid as you spoke92 them, when we left Great Slave Lake. I'll bet if you men were up there now, you'd hear my voice thawing118 out and yelling get-epp to my huskies, and my huskies yelping119 back! Used a dog train, whole of March. Tied myself up in bag of buffalo120 robes at night and made the huskies lie across it to keep me from freezing. Got so hot, every pore in my body was a spouting121 fountain, and in the morning that moisture would freeze my buckskin stiff. Couldn't stand that; so I tried sleeping with my head out of the bag and froze my nose six nights out of seven."[Pg 112]
The unfortunate nose corroborated122 his evidence.
"Ice was sloppy123 on the Saskatchewan, and I had to use pack-horses and take the trail. I was trusting to get provisions at Souris. You can imagine, then, how we felt towards the Hudson's Bays when we found they'd plundered125 our fort. We were without a bite for two days. Why, we took half a dozen Hudson's Bays in our quarters up north last winter, and saved them from starvation; and here we were, starving, that they might plunder124 and rob. I'm with you, Sir! I'm with you to the hilt against the thieves! There's a time for peace and there's a time for war, and I say this is a very good time for war!"
"Here's confusion to the old H. B. C's! Confusion, short life, no prosperity, and death to the Hudson's Bay!" yelled the young whiskered Nor'-Wester, springing to his feet on the bench and waving a drinking-cup round his head. Some of the youthful clerks were disposed to take their cue from this fire-eater and began strumming the table and applauding; but the Bourgeois frowned on forward conduct.
"Here, you young show-off," whispered Grant, leaning across the priest, and he knocked the boy's feet from under him bringing him down to the bench with a thud.[Pg 113]
"He needs more outdoor life, that young one! It goes to his head mighty130 fast," remarked Cameron. "What were you saying about your hard luck?" and he turned to the northern winterer again.
"Call that hard luck?" broke in a mountaineer, laughing as if he considered hardships a joke. "We lived a month last winter on two meals a day; soup, out of snow-shoe thongs131, first course; fried skins, second go; teaspoonful132 shredded133 fish, by way of an entrée!"
The man wore a beaded buckskin suit, and his mellow intonation134 of words in the manner of the Indian tongue showed that he had almost lost English speech along with English customs. His recital135 caused no surprise.
"Been on short, rations84 myself," returned the northerner. "Don't like it! Isn't safe! Rips a man's nerves to the raw when Indians glare at him with hungry eyes eighteen hours out of the twenty-four."
"What was the matter?" drawled the mountaineer. "Hudson's Bay been tampering136 with your Indians? Now if you had a good Indian wife as I have, you could defy the beggars to turn trade away——"
"Aye, that's so," agreed the winterer, "I heard of a fellow on the Athabasca who had to marry a squaw before he could get a pair of racquets made; but that wasn't my trouble. Game was scarce."
"Game scarce on MacKenzie River?" A chorus[Pg 114] of voices vented137 their surprise. To the outside world game is always scarce, reported scarce on MacKenzie River and everywhere else by the jealous fur traders; but these deceptions138 are not kept up among hunters fraternizing at the same banquet board.
"Mighty scarce. Some of the tribe died out from starvation. The Hudson's Bay in our district were in bad plight139. We took six of them in—Hadn't heard of the Souris plunder, you may be sure."
"More fools they to go into the Athabasca," declared the mountaineer.
"Bigger fools to send another brigade there this year when they needn't expect help from us," interjected a third trader.
"You don't say they're sending another lot of men to the Athabasca!" exclaimed the winterer.
"Yes I do—under Colin Robertson," affirmed the third man.
"Colin Robertson—the Nor'-Wester?"
"Robertson who used to be a Nor'-Wester! It's Selkirk's work since he got control of the H. B."
"Robertson should know better," said the northerner. "He had experience with us before he resigned. I'll wager140 he doesn't undertake that sort of venture! Surely it's a yarn141!"
"You lose your bet," cried the irrepressible Fort William lad. "A runner came in at six o'clock and reported that the Hudson's Bay[Pg 115] brigade from Lachine would pass here before midnight. They're sooners, they are, are the H. B. C's.," and the clerk enjoyed the sensation of rolling a big oath from his boyish lips.
"Eric Hamilton passing within a stone's throw of the fort!" In astonishment142 I leaned forward to catch every word the Fort William lad might say.
"To Athabasca by our route—past this fort!" Such temerity143 amazed the winterer beyond coherent expression.
"Good thing for them they're passing in the night," continued the clerk. "The half-breeds are hot about that Souris affair. There'll be a collision yet!" The young fellow's importance increased in proportion to the surprise of the elder men.
"There'll be a collision anyway when Cameron and Grant reach Red River—eh, Cuthbert?" and the mountaineer turned to the dark, sharp-featured warden of the plains. Cuthbert Grant laughed pleasantly.
"Oh, I hope not—for their sakes!" he said, and went on with the story of a buffalo hunt.
The story I missed, for I was deep in my own thoughts. I must see Eric and let him know what I had learned; but how communicate with the Hudson's Bay brigade without bringing suspicion of double dealing144 on myself? I was turning things over in my mind in a stupid sort of way like one new at intrigue145, when I heard a talker, vowing by all that was holy that he had seen the[Pg 116] rarest of hunter's rarities—a pure white buffalo. The wonder had appeared in Qu'Appelle Valley.
"I can cap that story, man," cried the portly Irish priest who was to go north in my boat. "I saw a white squaw less than two weeks ago!" He paused for his words to take effect, and I started from my chair as if I had been struck.
"What's wrong, young man?" asked the winterer. "We lonely fellows up north see visions. We leap out of our moccasins at the sound of our own voices; but you young chaps, with all the world around you"—he waved towards the crowded hall as though it were the metropolis146 of the universe—"shouldn't see ghosts and go jumping mad."
"Yes, a white squaw," repeated the jovial priest. "Sure now, white ladies aren't so many in these regions that I'd be likely to make a mistake."
"There's a difference between squaws and white ladies," persisted the jolly father, all unconscious that he was emphasizing a difference which many of the traders were spelling out in hard years of experience.
"I've seen papooses that were white for a day or two after they were born——"
"Effect of the christening," interrupted the youth, whose head, between flattered vanity and the emptied contents of his drinking cup, was very light indeed.[Pg 117]
"Take that idiot out and put him to bed, somebody," commanded Cameron.
"For a day or two after they were born," reiterated148 the priest; "but I never saw such a white-skinned squaw!"
"Where did you see her?" I inquired in a voice which was not my own.
"On Lake Winnipeg. Coming down two weeks ago we camped near a band of Sioux, and I declare, as I passed a tepee, I saw a woman's face that looked as white as snow. She was sleeping, and the curtain had blown up. Her child was in her arms, and I tell you her bare arms were as white as snow."
"Must have been the effect of the moonlight," explained some one.
"Moonlight didn't give the other Indians that complexion," insisted the priest.
It was my turn to feel my head suddenly turn giddy, though liquor had not passed my lips. This information could have only one meaning. I was close on the track of Miriam, and Eric was near; yet the slightest blunder on my part might ruin all chance of meeting him and rescuing her.
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