Bah! Beeg damfool!" The whole scene had lost for Jerry its mystic impressiveness and had become contemptibly commonplace.

But not so to Cameron.

This was the part that held meaning for him.

So he pulled up the half-breed with a quick, sharp command.
"Listen close," he said, "and let me know what he says." And as Jerry interpreted in his broken English the half-breed's speech it appeared that there was something worth learning.

At this big meeting held in Batoche it seemed a petition of rights, to the Dominion Parliament no less, had been drawn up, and besides this many plans had been formed and many promises made of reward for all those who dared to stand for their rights under the leadership of the great Riel, while for the Indians very special arrangements had been made and the most alluring prospects held out.