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When Wilderness Was King

CHAPTER VI
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Bless me! but it would make a new man of you." "Such is not at all my desire, Monsieur," I answered, civilly.

"I came now merely to learn if you would walk with me through these dunes of sand before the daylight fades." He looked out, idly enough, across that dreary expanse of desolation, and shrugged his shoulders.
"Use the other powder, Sam, the lighter colored," he murmured languidly, as if the sight had wearied him; "and mind you drop not so much as a pinch upon the waistcoat." Then he lifted his eyes inquiringly to mine.
"For what ?" he asked.
"To look forth upon the Great Lake.

Captain Wells tells me 't is but a brief and safe walk from here to the shore-line." "The lake ?--water ?" and the expression upon his face made me smile.
"_Mon Dieu_, man! have you become crazed by the hard march?
What have I ever said in our brief intercourse that could cause you to conceive I care greatly for that?
If it were only wine, now!" "You have no desire to go with me, then ?" "Lay out the red tie, Sam; no, the one with the white spots in it, and the small curling-iron.

No, Monsieur; what you ask is impossible.

I travel to the west for higher purpose than to gaze upon a heaving waste of water.


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