The half-breed's unsavoury reputation forced itself forward.

And there was the circumstance of Indian Jake's visit to Flat Point camp the previous evening, his hurried departure in the morning, and his evident desire to hurry into the interior wilderness where he would be swallowed up for several months, and from which there would be innumerable opportunities to escape.

Suddenly Doctor Joe was startled by Lem's voice, quite strong and natural now: "I'm thinkin' 'twere that thief Injun Jake that shoots me." "What makes you think so ?" asked Doctor Joe.
"He were huntin' geese just below here, and he comes in and sits for a bit.

I had a silver fox skin I were holdin' for a better price than they offers at Fort Pelican.

'Twere worth five hundred dollars whatever, and they only offers three hundred.