“No.”
“Is Mahan drowned?”
“Not yet. But your question explains everything. He fell in again, and gave you money for pulling him out. Do you have to be paid for saving life?”
The boy looked at her flashing eyes and sank back on his bed.
“Shinguakonse, don’t think me ungrateful. See, I am wearing your sweater. We give you lessons because we love you. And because you love Mainutung, you shall bring him some deermeat as soon as the season is open. How very, very pretty your lodge looks.”
Chapter 49. Indium
She rose and moved to the door, where she stood gazing into the darkness till the boy had slipped into his clothes.
“I am glad Naynokahsee she like my lodge. It is medicine for my father. It is like what was on Keego.”
“My brother, I’m afraid it is little use to recall those days.”
“My sister, when a man he get sick, medicine man he must know how that sickness it come. You will listen?”