Tales of the Klondyke (PDF, MOBI, EPUB, FB2, TEXT)
r father, with lying words, false promises, I
know not what; so that the priest stiffened his neck and would not
make us that we might live one with the other. As at the
beginning it was the church which would not bless my birth, so now
it was the church which refused me marriage and put the blood of
men upon my hands. Bien! Thus have I cause to love the church.
So I struck the priest on his woman's mouth, and we took swift
horses, the girl and I, to Fort Pierre, where was a minister of
good heart. But hot on our trail was her father, and brothers,
and other men he had gathered to him. And we fought, our horses
on the run, till I emptied three saddles and the rest drew off and
went on to Fort Pierre. Then we took east, the girl and I, to the
hills and forests, and we lived one with the other, and we were
not married,--the work of the good church which I love like a son.
"But mark you, for this is the strangeness of woman, the way of
which no man may understand. One of the saddles I emptied was
that
