They believed wise old Wong a physician, for Chinamen have strange gifts.
"I go see," said Pete.
"No, you run 'way," said Skookum urgently. He believed Jenny was dead.
"Mus' I run?" asked Pete with a fallen jaw.
"Dey hang you, Pete," screamed Annawillee joyfully. Old Annie sat up in the road.
"Where I go?" asked Pete. "I wis' I never see Jenny."
He burst into tears. They brought him a bottle, and told him to "dlink." They gave him advice to go down the river, up the river, to the Inlet, to the Serpentine, oh, anywhere from the Police.
"I go," said Pete. He drank.
"I—I—go," said Pete. He drank again, and fell and lay like a log.
"Now they catch Pete and hang him," screamed Annawillee. Annie staggered across to him and kicked him in the face.