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Old Hagar spat viciously at theue fortunately; else the things she said ht swift retribution And as if she did not care for consequences and wanted to rinned maliciously, and spoke the choppy dialect of her tribe

"Yo' tellum me shont-ishaebrush, all tio dead! Me ketchum hair--Squaw-talk-far-off hair You like for see, you thinkureasy brown hand, and shook triuled wisp of woie, without a doubt There was no gainsaying that color and texture She looked full at Evadna

"Yo' like see, rimly "Good Injun boot make track, Squaw-talk-far-off little shoe make track Me show, yo' thinkuebrush, ketchue mastered cupidity, and she produced that also, and held it up where they could all see

Evadna looked and winced

"I don't believe a word you say," she declared stubbornly "You STOLE that knife I suppose you also stole the hair You can't MAKElike that!"

"Squaw-talk-far-off run, run heap fas', get hoar pointed to each as she naive a confirround, and she grunted and ignored them afterward, content that they bore witness to her truth in that one particular

"Squaw-talk-far-off sabe Good Injun killu Good Indian's face cunningly to see if the guess struck close to the truth

"If you've said all you want to say, you better go," Good Indian told her after a lared at each other "I won't touch you--because you're such a devil I couldn't stop short of killing you, once I laid htly shut upon the curses he would not speak, and Evadna felt his biceps tauten under her fingers as if he were gathering hily into his face, and saw that it was sharp and stern, as it had been thatwhen the men had first been discovered in the orchard He raised his free arm, and pointed imperiously to the trail

"Pikeway!" he commanded

Viney and Lucy shrank fro their faces in a fold of blanket, slunk silently away like dogs that have been whipped and told to go Even Hagar drew back a pace, hardy as was her unta to his arly blue and horrified at all she had heard She laughed then--did Hagar--and waddled after the others, her whole body seeht