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CHAPTER FOURTEEN
THE TAILOR’s Luck

Captain Jacques looked with disapproval at
the brown papoose and he shook his head when
he heard the story of the deserted camp as
Betty told it.

“Squaw not leave her leetle babbee like zat.
Squaw love her babbee jus’ like white woman.
Zose Indians not far away. I have fear we see
zem again!’ he said. It turned out that J acques
was right.

They had found another raft load at this
camping place, the travellers who were next in
line ahead of them. In fact it was because of
Seeing their old friends of the trail on the bank
that they had made such an early stop in the
afternoon. They compared experiences and
found that the other raft had been damaged in
the rapids too and had had to lose a good deal
of time making repairs. Also they were as
short of food as the professor’s party and could
give them no assistance.

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