"No, I will not," said Wah-na-gi boldly, plucking up courage in their presence.
"I'm afraid of you."
Then Appah forgot that he was trying to win her love. He advanced close to her, as if he would lay violent hands on her.
"Maybeso you heap like 'em white man. I savey you! Chief Injin police, eh? Katch wayno! (No good). Maybeso kill 'im some day!"
Then he noticed that she was dressed very neatly, better than the Indian women dress, that in fact she had on her best clothes, and he knew it was because the chief of police had just got back, and it enraged him to violence. He snatched the string of beads from her neck and threw them to the ground.
He snatched the string of beads from her neck.
"Kill 'im, me, some day."
"Who's that you're going to kill?" said Calthorpe in his soft musical voice as he advanced from the porch of the agent's house. Appah turned on him in a fury.
"What's matter you?"