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Pursued by two men, one her dead husbands kin and one a rugged frontiersman, Sabrina Kane, a spirited young widow, struggles to survive in frontier Illinois while caring for her despondent father. Original.
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Copyright 1956 by Will Cook
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Since Cadmus Kane's sickness had grown worse, Sabrina had been spending most of her waking hours in the wagon with him. His fever had been mounting steadily. Delirium now robbed him of his senses for long periods of time. To ease his suffering, Sabrina Kane bathed his forehead with a damp cloth, and in a small copper dish burned black gunpowder, yet the acrid fumes did little to clear the strangling phlegm in his throat.
A week of intemperate spring rain had made the Ohio River difficult to navigate and the three voyageurs cursed the continual drizzle as well as the fickle current. Their cargo was a dearborn wagon, three horses, the sick man and his wife, and Sabrina's father, an old man who tolerated the rain with a stolidness completely out of proportion to his discomfort.
The durham boat in which they were making this part of their journey was long and of shallow draught. A
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crude, slab-board house squatted in the center of the low deck and there the keelboatmen slept and cooked their meals. Convenience and comfort to passengers was limited to what they could provide for themselves. Sabrina was forced to sleep under the wagon since their belongings and her husband occupied all available space inside and he was too ill to be moved.
With the river running swiftly there was little need of the tow rope and the three voyageurs steadied the boat on course with stout poles and a makeshift oar off the stern. During the last two days of Cadmus Kane's illness a change had come over the rivermen and their talk had been confined to whispers among themselves. Now, as if by common consent, the durham boat was nosed toward the west shore. As it neared the bank one of the voyageurs leaped into the water, and with cordelle in hand, made the bow fast to a handy cottonwood tree.
Sabrina Kane felt the boat jar against the bank and for a moment could not believe they had stopped. Then her father, who had been standing near the front of the wagon, said, "Sabrina, come out here." Priam Thomas spoke in a tired, fatalistic voice, as though he had walked with trouble for so long a time that a little more wasn't going to make an appreciable difference.
Sabrina recognized that tone. She lifted her long skirts knee high and went over the tailgate. "What's wrong?" She looked at her father and he shook his head. Putting out her hand she pushed him aside in much the same manner as she had often pushed him before when some-
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thing unpleasant had to be done immediately. She walked around the back of the wagon in time to meet the leader of the voyageurs. His name was Jacques Fountainbleau, half French, half Cree; a blend of the bad in both. He swept off his cap which was a Madras cotton handkerchief, brightly colored and tied on four corners. Fountainbleau's face was dark with whiskers. Several broken teeth peered through the curtain of his lips when he smiled.
He said, "M'sieu, Madamehow you sayget off here." He gestured toward the bank. His long capot swung aside when he moved his arms, exposing a flintlock pistol and a hatchet thrust into his sash.
Sabrina favored her father with a glance but in it was little hope that he would say or do anything. The habit of standing back and letting others take the initiative was too strong in Priam Thomas to be broken. She faced Fountainbleau boldly, and if she felt fear she hid it well. "We'll not get off here! You were paid eighty Spanish dollars to take us to Cairo in the Illinois country! Now put the boat back into the current!"
She was not a tall girl, but her erectness and her anger made her seem tall. Her face was an oval frame for clark brown eyes, a straight, finely chiseled nose, and full, expressive lips. She wore a long homespun dress that was damply clinging from exposure to the rain. Her brown hair was parted in the middle; the two soggy braids were secured at the ends by limp blue ribbons.
Jacques Fountainbleau's smile broadened and became
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disarming. He spread his hands in a helpless gesture, as though he were merely executing the will of God. "Madame, mes voyageurs fear the sickness. You get off, maintenant." He spoke with the finality of one who has definitely made up his mind.
"I said it wasn't any good comin' out here," Priam Thomas murmured. "You remember, I told Cadmus that before we left Pennsylvania."
Sabrina moved her hand impatiently and Priam Thomas stopped talking. From the covered dearborn wagon Cadmus Kane's hacking cough grew stronger, ending finally in a choked gurgle. Sabrina bit her lower lip, then tried another tack. "M'sieu Fountainbleau, my husband must have a doctor. Do you understand?
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