Jack London · 1901 · B1 · ≈ 15 min
The God of His Fathers
Глава 2 — Hay Stockard meets the chief
From inside his tent came the cry of a sick child, and the gentle answering song of its mother. But the man was not concerned now with them. He was thinking of Baptiste the Red, the chief of the Indian village, who had just left him.
"We do not want you here," Baptiste had told him. "If we permit you to sit by our fires, after you will come your church, your priests and your God." Baptiste the Red hated the White mans God. His father had been an Englishman; his mother, the daughter of an Indian chief. Baptiste had been raised among White men.