"Go to bed," she returned.
He waited outside until he heard her bolt both doors. For an hour after that he sat within the door of his tepee with the flap up, watching the road. Nothing stirred on it.
Bela had obtained Gilbert Beattie's permission to keep her team in the company's stable for the present. After breakfast next morning, without saying anything to anybody, Musq'oosis climbed the hill and hitched Sambo and Dinah to the wagon. Taking a native boy to drive, he disappeared up the road. He was gone all day.
Bela was setting the table for supper when he came in. With an elaborate affectation of innocence he went to the fire to warm his hands.
"Where you been?" she demanded, frowning.
"Drivin'."
"Who tell you tak' the horses?"
"Nobody."
"Those my horses!" she said stormily.