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The Project Gutenberg EBook of The Going of the White Swan, by Gilbert Parker This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.net Title: The Going of the White Swan Author: Gilbert Parker Release Date: September 18, 2005 [EBook #16716] Language: English Character set encoding: ASCII *** START OF THIS PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK THE GOING OF THE WHITE SWAN *** Produced by Janet Keller, Janet Blenkinship and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net THE GOING OF THE WHITE SWAN [Illustration] [Illustration] [Illustration: "'No, no--this!' the priest said." (p 56)] THE GOING OF THE WHITE SWAN BY GILBERT PARKER [Illustration] NEW YORK D. APPLETON AND COMPANY MCMXII [Illustration] Copyright, 1912, by GILBERT PARKER Copyright, 1895, by Charles Scribner's Sons Copyright, 1895, by Stone and Kimball Copyright, 1898, by The Macmillan Company [Illustration] THE GOING OF THE WHITE SWAN [Illustration] I "Why don't she come back, father?" The man shook his head, his hand fumbled with the wolfskin robe covering the child, and he made no reply. "She'd come if she knew I was hurted, wouldn't she?" The father nodded, and then turned restlessly toward the door, as though expecting some one. The look was troubled, and the pipe he held was not alight, though he made a pretense of smoking. "Suppose the wildcat had got me, she'd be sorry when she comes, wouldn't she?" There was no reply yet, save by gesture, the language of primitive man; but the big body shivered a little, and the uncouth hand felt for a place in the bed where the lad's knee made a lump under the robe. He felt the little heap tenderly, but the child winced. "S-sh, but that hurts! This wolfskin's most too much on me, isn't it, father?" The man softly, yet awkwardly, lifted the robe, folded it back, and slowly uncovered the knee. The leg was worn away almost to skin and bone, but the knee itself was swollen with inflammation. He bathed it with some water, mixed with vinegar and herbs, then drew down the deer-skin shirt, and did the same with the child's shoulder. Both shoulder and knee bore the marks of teeth,--where a
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