And so if he did not get Nepeese without trouble it would all be Pierrot's fault.

Tomorrow McTaggart would start again for the half-breed's country.

And the next day Pierrot would have an answer for him.

Bush McTaggart chuckled again as he went to bed.
Until the next to the last day Pierrot said nothing to Nepeese about what had passed between him and the factor at Lac Bain.

Then he told her.
"He is a beast--a man-devil," he said, when he had finished.