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“She was here when Arthur and I left to try
for game.

“Well then, you go on with the others,
Jacques, if you think you must. I’ll stay here to
find her and will fetch her on in my dugout.”

“Sure, I’ll never go on and leave the child
behind,” declared Mary Mulligan belligerently.
“Whoever goes, I stay!”

“Mother, you can’t,” Jim explained, modding
his very red and unkempt hair emphatically.
“The dugout will only hold two. We’d drown
if we tried three in it.”

“Now, Madame Mooligane, you mus’ be
raisonable,” Jacques began to persuade her.
“Ze bes’ for ze little gal is do as Jeem say.
You come wis ze raf’. Jeem is a clevaire boy,
he soon bring ze little gal along and by noon
we all togezzer again.”

The poor Little General was torn in two.
Oh, why had the professor in his canoe dis-
appeared around the bend ahead? If he had
been there he would have had something very
different to say, that she knew. He would have
reasoned with Jacques and had them all stay
till his Golden Betty was found.

But Jacques was firm. The safety of all was

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