"Good-by, boy! God bless you!" he had said in broken voice. "Don't fall to brooding when you're alone, or you'll lose your wits. Now mind yourself! Don't mope!"[Pg 221]
For my part, I could not answer a word, but keeping hold of his hand walked on with him a pace.
"Get away with you! Go home, youngster!" he ordered, roughly shaking me off and flourishing his staff.
Then he strode swiftly forward without once looking back, while I would have given all I possessed10 for one last wave. As he plunged11 into the sombre forest, where the early autumn frost of that north land had already tinged12 the maple13 woods with the hectic14 flush of coming death, so poignant15 was this last wresting16 from human fellowship, I could scarcely resist the impulse to desert my station and follow him. Poorer than the poorest of the tribes to whom he ministered, alone and armed only with his faith, this man was ready to conquer the world for his Master. "Would that I had half the courage for my quest," I mused17, and walked slowly back to the solitary18 lodge.
Black Cat, Chief of the Mandane village, in a noisy harangue19, adopted me as his son and his brother and his father and his mother and I know not what; but apart from trade with his people, I responded coldly to these warm overtures20. From Father Holland's leave-taking to Hamilton's coming, was a desolately21 lonesome interval22. Daily I went to the north hill and strained my eyes for figures against the horizon. Sometimes horsemen would gradually loom7 into view, head first, then arms and horse, like the peak of a ship preceding appearance of full canvas[Pg 222] and hull23 over sea. Thereupon I would hurriedly saddle my own horse and ride furiously forward, feeling confident that Hamilton had at last come, only to find the horsemen some company of Indian riders. What could be keeping him? I conjectured24 a thousand possibilities; but in truth there was no need for any conjectures25. 'Twas I, who felt the days drag like years. Hamilton was not behind his appointed time. He came at last, walking in on me one night when I least expected him and was sitting moodily26 before my untouched supper. He had nothing to tell except that he had wasted many weeks following false clues, till our buffalo27 hunters returned with news of the Sioux attack, Diable's escape and our bootless pursuit. At once he had left Fort Douglas for the Missouri, pausing often to send scouts28 scouring29 the country for news of Diable's band; but not a trace of the rascals30 had been found; and his search seemed on the whole more barren of results than mine. Laplante, he reported, had never been seen the night after he left the council hall to find the young Nor'-Wester. In my own mind, I had no doubt the villain31 had been in that company we pursued through the prairie fire. Altogether, I think Hamilton's coming made matters worse rather than better. That I had failed after so nearly effecting a rescue seemed to embitter32 him unspeakably.
Out of deference33 to the rival companies employing us, we occupied different lodges34. Indeed,[Pg 223] I fear poor Eric did but a sorry business for the Hudson's Bay that winter. I verily believe he would have forgotten to eat, let alone barter35 for furs, had I not been there to lug36 him forcibly across to my lodge, where meals were prepared for us both. Often when I saw the Indian trappers gathering37 before his door with piles of peltries, I would go across and help him to value the furs. At first the Indian rogues38 were inclined to take advantage of his abstraction and palm off one miserable beaver39 skin, where they should have given five for a new hatchet40; and I began to understand why they crowded to his lodge, though he did nothing to attract them, while they avoided mine. Then I took a hand in Hudson's Bay trade and equalized values. First, I would pick over the whole pile, which the Indians had thrown on the floor, putting spoiled skins to one side, and peltries of the same kind in classified heaps.
"Lynx, buffalo, musk-ox, marten, beaver, silver fox, black bear, raccoon! Want them all, Eric?" I would ask, while the Indians eyed me with suspicious resentment41.
"Certainly, certainly, take everything," Eric would answer, without knowing a word of what I had said, and at once throwing away his opportunity to drive a good bargain.
Picking over the goods of Hamilton's packet, the Mandanes would choose what they wanted. Then began a strange, silent haggling42 over prices. Unlike Oriental races, the Indian maintains stolid[Pg 224] silence, compelling the white man to do the talking.
"Eric, Running Deer wants a gun," I would begin.
"For goodness' sake, give it to him, and don't bother me," Eric would urge, and the faintest gleam of amused triumph would shoot from the beady eyes of Running Deer. Running Deer's peltries would be spread out, and after a half hour of silent consideration on his part and trader's talk on mine, furs to the value of so many beaver skins would be passed across for the coveted43 gun. I remember it was a wretched old squaw with a toothless, leathery, much-bewrinkled face and a reputation for knowledge of Indian medicines, who first opened my eyes to the sort of trade the Indians had been driving with Hamilton. The old creature was bent44 almost double over her stout45 oak staff and came hobbling in with a bag of roots, which she flung on the floor. After thawing46 out her frozen moccasins before the lodge fire and taking off bandages of skins about her ankles, she turned to us for trade. We were ready to make concessions47 that might induce the old body to hurry away; but she demanded red flannel48, tea and tobacco enough to supply a whole family of grandchildren, and sat down on the bag of roots prepared to out-siege us.
"What's this, Eric?" I asked, knowing no more of roots than the old woman did of values.
"She'll have the whole kit and the shanty51, too, if you don't get her out," said Hamilton, opening the lodge door; and the old squaw presently limped off with an armful of flannel, one tea packet and a parcel of tobacco, already torn open. Such was the character of Hamilton's bartering52 up to the time I elected myself his first lieutenant53; but as his abstractions became almost trance-like, I think the superstition54 of the Indians was touched. To them, a maniac55 is a messenger of the Great Spirit; and Hamilton's strange ways must have impressed them, for they no longer put exorbitant56 values on their peltries.
After the day's trading Eric would come to my hut. Pacing the cramped57 place for hours, wild-eyed and silent, he would abruptly58 dash into the darkness of the night like one on the verge59 of madness. Thereupon, the taciturn, grave-faced La Robe Noire, tapping his forehead significantly, would look with meaning towards Little Fellow; and I would slip out some distance behind to see that Hamilton did himself no harm while the paroxysm lasted. So absorbed was he in his own gloom, for days he would not utter a syllable60. The storm that had gathered would then discharge its strength in an outburst of incoherent ravings, which usually ended in Hamilton's illness and my watching over him night and day, keeping firearms out of reach. I have never seen—and hope I never may—any other being age so swiftly and[Pg 226] perceptibly. I had attributed his worn appearance in Fort Douglas to the cannon61 accident and trusted the natural robustness62 of his constitution would throw off the apparent languor63; but as autumn wore into winter, there were more gray hairs on his temple, deeper lines furrowed64 his face and the erect65 shoulders began to bow.
When days slipped into weeks and weeks into months without the slightest inkling of Miriam's whereabouts to set at rest the fear that my rash pursuit had caused her death, I myself grew utterly66 despondent67. Like all who embark68 on daring ventures, I had not counted on continuous frustration69. The idea that I might waste a lifetime in the wilderness70 without accomplishing anything had never entered my mind. Week after week, the scouts dispatched in every direction came back without one word of the fugitives71, and I began to imagine my association with Hamilton had been unfortunate for us both. This added to despair the bitterness of regret.
The winter was unusually mild, and less game came to the Missouri from the mountains and bad lands than in severe seasons. By February, we were on short rations72. Two meals a day, with cat-fish for meat and dried skins in soup by way of variety, made up our regular fare for mid-winter. The frequent absence of my two Indians, scouring the region for the Sioux, left me to do my own fishing; and fishing with bare hands in frosty weather is not pleasant employment for a youth of soft up-bringing. Protracted73 bachelordom[Pg 227] was also losing its charms; but that may have resulted from a new influence, which came into my life and seemed ever present.
At Christmas, Hamilton was threatened with violent insanity74. As the Mandanes' provisions dwindled75, the Indians grew surlier toward us; and I was as deep in despondency as a man could sink. Frequently, I wondered whether Father Holland would find us alive in the spring, and I sometimes feared ours would be the fate of Athabasca traders whose bodies satisfied the hunger of famishing Crees.
How often in those darkest hours did a presence, which defied time and space, come silently to me, breathing inspiration that may not be spoken, healing the madness of despair and leaving to me in the midst of anxiety a peace which was wholly unaccountable! In the lambent flame of the rough stone fireplace, in the darkness between Hamilton's hut and mine, through which I often stole, dreading76 what I might find—everywhere, I felt and saw, or seemed to see, those gray eyes with the look of a startled soul opening its virgin77 beauty and revealing its inmost secrets.
A bleak78, howling wind, with great piles of storm-scud overhead, raved79 all the day before Christmas. It was one of those afternoons when the sombre atmosphere seems weighted with gloom and weariness. On Christmas eve Hamilton's brooding brought on acute delirium80. He had been more depressed81 than usual, and at night when we sat down to a cheerless supper of hare-skin[Pg 228] soup and pemmican, he began to talk very fast and quite irrationally82.
"Bunk!" said he icily, in the grand manner he sometimes assumed at the Quebec Club for the benefit of a too familiar member. "And pray, Sir, what might 'bunk' mean?"
"Go to bed, Eric," I coaxed84, getting tight hold of his hands. "You're not well, old man; come to bed!"
"Bed!" he exclaimed with indignation. "Bed! You're a madman, Sir! I'm to meet Miriam on the St. Foye road." (It was here that Miriam lived in Quebec, before they were married.) "On the St. Foye road! See the lights glitter, dearest, in Lower Town," and he laughed aloud. Then followed such an outpouring of wild ravings I wept from very pity and helplessness.
"Rufus! Rufus, lad!" he cried, staring at me and clutching at his forehead as lucid85 intervals86 broke the current of his madness. "Gillespie, man, what's wrong? I don't seem able to think. Who—are—you? Who—in the world—are you? Gillespie! O Gillespie! I'm going mad! Am I going mad? Help me, Rufus! Why can't you help me? It's coming after me! See it! The hideous87 thing!" Tears started from his burning eyes and his brow was knotted hard as whipcord.
"Look! It's there!" he screamed, pointing to the fire, and he darted88 to the door, where I caught him. He fought off my grasp with maniacal[Pg 229] strength, and succeeded in flinging open the door. Then I forgot this man was more than brother to me, and threw myself upon him as against an enemy, determined89 to have the mastery. The bleak wind roared through the open blackness of the doorway90, and on the ground outside were shadows of two struggling, furious men. I saw the terrified faces of Little Fellow and La Robe Noire peering through the dark, and felt wet beads91 start from every pore in my body. Both of us were panting like fagged racers. One of us was fighting blindly, raining down aimless blows, I know not which, but I think it must have been Hamilton, for he presently sank in my arms, limp and helpless as a sick child.
Somehow I got him between the robes of my floor mattress92. Drawing a box to the bedside I again took his hands between mine and prepared for a night's watch.
He raved in a low, indistinct tone, muttering Miriam's name again and again, and tossing his head restlessly from side to side. Then he fell into a troubled sleep. The supper lay untouched. Torches had burned black out. One tallow candle, that I had extravagantly93 put among some evergreens—our poor decorations for Christmas Eve—sputtered low and threw ghostly, branching shadows across the lodge. I slipped from the sick man's side, heaped more logs on the fire and stretched out between robes before the hearth94. In the play of the flame Hamilton's face seemed suddenly and strangely calm. Was it the dim[Pg 230] light, I wonder. The furrowed lines of sorrow seemed to fade, leaving the peaceful, transparent95 purity of the dead. I could not but associate the branched shadows on the wall with legends of death keeping guard over the dying. The shadow by his pillow gradually assumed vague, awesome96 shape. I sat up and rubbed my eyes. Was this an illusion, or was I, too, going mad? The filmy thing distinctly wavered and receded97 a little into the dark.
An unspeakable fear chilled my veins98. Then I could have laughed defiance99 and challenged death. Death! Curse death! What had we to fear from dying? Had we not more to fear from living? At that came thought of my love and the tumult100 against life was quieted. I, too, like other mortals, had reason, the best of reason, to fear death. What matter if a lonely one like myself went out alone to the great dark? But when thought of my love came, a desolating101 sense of separation—separation not to be bridged by love or reason—overwhelmed me, and I, too, shrank back.
Again I peered forward. The shadow fluttered, moved, and came out of the gloom, a tender presence with massy, golden hair, white-veined brow, and gray eyes, speaking unutterable things.
"My beloved!" I cried. "Oh, my beloved!" and I sprang towards her; but she had glided102 back among the spectral103 branches.
The candle tumbled to the floor, extinguishing all light, and I was alone with the sick man[Pg 231] breathing heavily in the darkness. A log broke over the fire. The flames burst up again; but I was still alone. Had I, too, lost grip of reality; or was she in distress104 calling for me? Neither suggestion satisfied; for the mean lodge was suddenly filled with a great calm, and my whole being was flooded and thrilled with the trancing ecstasy105 of an ethereal presence.
If I remember rightly—and to be perfectly106 frank, I do—though I was in as desperate straits as a man could be, I lay before the hearth that Christmas Eve filled with gratitude107 to heaven—God knows such a gift must have come from heaven!—for the love with which I had been dowered.
How it might have been with other men I know not. For myself, I could not have come through that dreary108 winter unscathed without the influence of her, who would have been the first to disclaim109 such power. Among the velvet110 cushions of the east one may criticise111 the lapse112 of white man to barbarity; but in the wilderness human voice is as grateful to the ear as rain patter in a drouth. There, men deal with facts, not arguments. Natives break the loneliness of an isolated113 life by not unwelcomed visits. Comes a time when they tarry over long in the white man's lodge. Other men, who have scouted114 the possibility of sinking to savagery115, have forsaken116 the ways of their youth. Who can say that I might not have departed from the path called rectitude?[Pg 232]
Religion may keep a holy man upright in slippery places; but for common mortals, devotion to a being, whom, in one period of their worship men rank with angels, does much to steady wavering feet. Hers was the influence that aroused loathing117 for the drunken debauches, the cheating, the depraved living of the Indian lodges: hers, the influence that kept the loathing from slipping into indifference118, the indifference from becoming participation119. Indeed, I could wish a young man no better talisman120 against the world, the flesh and the devil, than love for a pure woman.
How we dragged through the hours of that night, of Christmas and the days that followed, I do not attempt to set down here. Hamilton's illness lasted a month. What with trading and keeping our scouts on the search for Miriam and waiting on the sick man, I had enough to busy me without brooding over my own woes121. Hard as my life was, it was fortunate I had no time for thoughts of self and so escaped the melancholy122 apathy123 that so often benumbs the lonely man's activities. And when Eric became convalescent, I had enough to do finding diversion for his mind. Keeping record of our doings on birch-bark sheets, playing quoits with the Mandanes and polo with a few fearless riders, helped to pass the long weary days.
So the dismal124 winter wore away and spring was drizzling125 into summer. Within a few weeks we should be turning our faces northward126 for the[Pg 233] forks of the Red and Assiniboine. The prospect127 of movement after long stagnation128 cheered Hamilton and fanned what neither of us would acknowledge—a faint hope that Miriam might yet be alive in the north. I verily believe Eric would have started northward with restored courage had not our plans been thwarted129 by the sinister130 handiwork of Le Grand Diable.
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