And she came out all right in the end. Well, that's the way I've
felt sometimes. But I'm ready for my operation now whenever it comes,
and it's coming,
I know. Let it come when it must." He smiled. There came a knock at
the door, and presently Sewell entered. "The Commissioner wishes you to
come over, sir," he said.
"I was just coming, Sewell. Is all ready for the start?"
"Everything's ready, sir, but there's to be a change of orders.
Something's happened--a bad job up in the Cree country, I think."
A few minutes later Jim was in the Commissioner's office. The murder of
a Hudson's Bay Company's man had been committed in the Cree country. The
stranger whom Jim and Sally had seen riding across the plains had brought
the news for thirty miles, word of the murder having been carried from
point to point. The Commissioner was uncertain what to do, as the Crees
were restless through want of food and the absence of game, and a force
sent to capture Arrowhead, the chief who had committed the murder, might
precipitate trouble. Jim solved the problem by offering to go alone and
bring the chief into the post.
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