Yellow Hair tried every day to get the ear of Old Simon. There was nothing of real interest in this fort, and the amusement quickly wore off to be replaced by restlessness.
He wanted to have a hearing on the Fort Chesterfield affair, get everything straight about it, clear himself completely, dispatch the findings to Hudson’s Bay Company and then return home.
Bright Star was forever with him and as the delay increased he began to be apprehensive about her. Though he knew nothing about Big Wolf’s decision and the choice of Long Bow and the limited time, he could nevertheless sense somehow that all was not right.
He had been gone so long he dared not think what had happened in his absence and so he tried to keep his thoughts in the back of his head.
He had dreams about a big lodge he wou
