L O ST F A C E

J A C K LO NDO N
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AU TH O R or TH E J ACK E T , TH E V ALLE Y

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L O ST FA CE

T R U ST
To B U I LD A F I RE
T H AT S POT
F LU SH OF G O LD
TH E PA SS I NG OF MAR CU S O B R I E N

TH E WIT OF PO RPORTU K
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T was the end Subi enk ow had trav

I elled a long trail of bi tterness and
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horror hom i ng like a dove for the capi tals

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of Europe and here farther away than

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ever i n Russ i an Amer i ca the trail ceased

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H e sat in the snow arms ti ed behi nd hi m

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wa iti ng the torture He stared curi ously

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before hi m at a huge Cossack prone i n the ,

snow moani ng in hi s pain The men had

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ni shed handli ng the giant and turned hi m

over to the wom en That they exceed ed
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t he endi shn ess of the men the m an s cri es

attested .

Subi enk ow looked on and shuddered , .

H e was not afraid to di e He had carried

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hi s life t oo long i n hi s hands on that weary ,

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trail from Warsaw to N ulato t o shudd er ,

at m ere dying But he obj ect ed to t he

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torture It o en d ed his soul And thi s

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o en ce in turn
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was not du e to t he mere
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pain he must endur e but to the sorry ,

sp ectacl e t he pain would make of hi m .

He knew that he woul d pray and b eg and , ,

entr eat even as Big Ivan and the oth ers

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that had gone before Thi s woul d not be.

ni ce To pass out brav ely and cleanly

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with a smil e and a j est ah ! that woul d

have be en t he way But to lose control
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to have hi s soul ups et by t he pangs of

the esh to scre ech and gibber lik e an ape
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t o becom e the v eries t beast ah that was ,

what was so terrible .

Ther e had been no chance to escape .

From the begi nni ng when he dreamed the

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ery dream of P oland s ind ependence he

had bec ome a puppet in the hands of Fate .

From the be gi nn ing at Warsaw at St

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P etersburg in the Siberian mines in Kamt

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chat ka , on the crazy boats of the fur thi eves -

Fate had been drivi ng hi m to thi s end .

Without doubt in the foundations of the

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world was graved this end o hi f r m for

hi m who was so ne and s ensitive whose
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nerves scarcely sheltered under hi s skin ,

who was a dream er and a poet and an

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artist Befor e he was dr eamed of it had

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been determined that the qui veri ng bundl e

of sensitiveness that constituted hi m shoul d

be doomed to live in raw and howling

savage ry and t o di e in thi s far land of
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ni ght in this dark place beyond the last

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boundaries of the world .

H e sighed .So that t hi ng before hi m was

Big Ivan Big Ivan the giant the man ,

without nerves the man of iron the Cossack

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turned freebooter o f the seas who was as

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phle gmati c as an ox with a nervous system

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s o low that what was pain to ordi nary men

was scarcely a tickle t o hi m Well well.

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trust th ese Nul ato Indi ans t o nd Big

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Ivan s n erv es and trac e them to the roots
of hi s quivering soul Th ey w er e certainly
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doing it It was inconceivabl e that a

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man coul d su er so much and yet live Big .

Ivan was paying for his low ord er of n erves .

Already he had lasted twic e as long as any

of the others .

Subi enk ow f elt that he coul d not stand

t he Cossa ck s sufferings much long er

Why .

didn t Ivan di e

H e would go mad if that
screaming di d n ot c ease But when it di d .

c eas e hi s turn woul d com e And th ere

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was Yakag e awaiting him t oo grinni ng , ,

at hi m ev en n ow in anticipation Yak a ga ,

whom onl y last we ek he had kicked out of

t he fort and upon whose face he had laid
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t he lash of his dog whip Ya ka ga woul d

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att end to him Doubtl essly Y a ka ga was

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saving for hi m mor e rened tortures more ,

exqui sit e n erve racking Ah ! that must

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hav e b een a good on e from the way Ivan,

screamed The squaws bendi ng over hi m

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stepped back wi th laughter and clapping

of hands Subi enk ow saw t he monstrous
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thi ng that had been perpetrated and began ,

to laugh hysterically The Indi ans looked

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at hi m in wonderm ent that he should laugh .

But Subi enk ow could not stop .

Thi s would never do He controlled

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hi ms elf the spasmodi c twitchi ngs slowly

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dying away He strove t o thi nk of other

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things and began rea ding back in hi s own

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li fe H e remembered hi s moth er and hi s

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fath er and the littl e spotted pony and the

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French tutor who had taught him dancing

and sneaked him an old worn copy of
Voltaire Once more he saw P aris and
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dreary L ondon and gay Vienna and Rome

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And once more he saw that wild group of

youths who had dreamed even as he the
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dream of an ind epend ent P oland with a

king of P oland on the throne at Warsaw .

Ah th ere it was that the long trail began

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Well , he had last ed longest O ne by one ,

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b eginni ng wi th the two executed at St .

P etersburg he took up the count of the pass

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ing of those brave spirits Here one had .

b een beaten to death by a j ailer and there , ,

on that blood stained hi ghway of the exiles

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where they had marched for endl ess months ,

beat en and maltreated by their Cossack

guards another had dr opp ed by the way
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Always it had b een savag ery brutal bestial ,

savag ery Th ey had di ed of fever in

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the min es und er the knout The last two

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had di ed a ft er the escape in the battle with

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the Cossacks and he alone had won to

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K a m t chatka with t he stol en pap ers and

t he money of a traveller he had left lying

in the snow .

It had been nothi ng but savagery All .

the y ears wi th hi s heart in stu di os and

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theatres and courts he had b een hemm ed

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in by savagery He had purchased hi s li fe

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with blood Everyb ody had killed He

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had ki lle d that trav ell er for hi s p assp orts .

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He had proved that he was a man o f parts

by duelling with t wo Russian ofc ers on a
single day He had had to prove hi msel f
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i n order to win to a place among the fur

thi eves He had had to win to that place
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Behind hi m lay t he thousand years long - -

road across all Siberia and Russia He .

could n ot escape that way The only way

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was ahead across the dark and icy sea of

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B eri ng to Alaska The way had led

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from savagery to de eper savagery O n .

the scurvy rotten ships of the fur thieves

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out of food and out of wat er buffeted by ,

the interminable storms of that stormy sea ,

men had become a ni mals Thrice he had

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sailed east from K amt chatka And thrice.

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after all mann er of hardshi p and suffering the ,

survi vors had come back to K amtchatka .

There had be en no outl et for escape and ,

he could not go back the way he had come ,

for the mines and the knout awa i ted hi m .

A gain the fourth a nd last ti me he ha d

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sail ed east H e had been with those who
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rst found the fabl ed S eal I slands but he

had not returned with th em to share t he
wealth of furs in the mad orgi es of Kam
tcha tka. He had sworn never to go back .

H e kn ew that to win t o those dear ca pitals

of Europ e he must go on So he had .

chang ed ships and r emained in the dark

n ew land . His comrad es w ere Slavonian
hunt ers and Russian adventur ers Mongols ,

and Tartars and Sibe ri an ab ori gines ; and

through t he savages of the new world th ey
had cut a path of blood They had mas
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sacred whol e villag es that refused to furni sh

t he fur tribut e ; and they in turn had
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be en massa cr ed by shi ps compani es He

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with one Finn had been the sole su rvivors

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of such a company Th ey had spent a

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wint er of solitude and starvation on a

lonely Al eutian isl e and their r escue in
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t he spring by anoth er fur ship had been

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one c ha nc e in a thousand ,
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But always the terrible savagery had

hemmed hi m i n Passing from ship to
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ship and ever r efusing to return he had

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come to the shi p that explor ed south A ll .

down the Alaska coast th ey had encount ered

nothi ng but hosts of savages Every a n .

ch or a ge among t he be etling islands or under

t he frowni ng cliffs of the mai nl and had

meant a battl e or a storm Either the .

gal es blew threate ni ng destructi on or the

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war canoes cam e off manned by howling ,

natives with the war paint on their faces -

who came to learn the bloody virtu es of

the sea rovers gunpowder S outh south
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th ey had coasted cl ear to the myth land

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of Cali fornia Her e it was said w ere

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Spanish adv enturers who had fought th eir

way up from Mexico He had had hopes .

of those Spani sh adventurers E scaping .

to them the r est woul d have been easy a

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y ear or two what di d it matt er more or

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le ss a nd he woul d Wi n t o M exico , then a
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shi p and Europe would be hi s But th ey
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had met no Spa ni ards Only had th ey .

encoun tered t he sam e impregnable wall of

savagery The d eni z ens of the con nes

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of the world painted for war had driven

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them back from the shores At last when .

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one boat was cut off and every man kill ed ,

the commander had abandoned the quest

and sailed back to the north .

The yea rs had passed He had s erved .

und er Tebenk off when Mi cha elov ski R e

doubt was b uil t He had spent two yea rs
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in the Kus kokwi m country Two summers .

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in the month of June he had manag ed to ,

be at the head of Kotz ebue Sound H er e .

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at this time the tribes a ssembled for

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barter ; here were to be found spotted

d eerskins fr om Siberia ivory from the ,

Diom edes walrus skins from the shores of

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the Arctic strang e stone lamps passing in

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trade from trib e to trib e no one knew ,

wh ence and once a hunting k ni fe of

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one had s een them It was the word that
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had be en pass ed along .

It was a hard school One could not

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learn geography very well through the

medi um of strange dialects from dark ,

minds that mingl ed fact and fable and that

measured di stances by sl eeps that varied
a ccordi ng to the di fcul ty of t he going .

But at last cam e t he whi sper that gave

Su bi enk ow courag e In t he east lay a
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great riv er where were these blu e ey ed men

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The riv er was called t he Yu kon S outh .

of Mi cha elov ski Redoubt empti ed another

gr eat riv er whi ch the Russians knew as
the Kwikp ak Thes e two riv ers were on e
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ran the whi sper .

Subi enk ow r eturn ed to Mi chaelov ski .

For a year he urged an expediti on up the

Kwikpak Then arose Malakoff t he Rus
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sian half breed to lead the wildest and

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most f erocious of the h ell s broth of mongrel

adventurers who had crossed from Kam

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t cha tka . Subi enk ow

was hi s lieutenant .

Th ey threaded the mazes of the great

delta of the Kwi kpak p i cked up the rst ,

low hi lls on the north ern bank and for ,

half a thousand miles i n ski n canoes load ed

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to the gunwales wi th trade goods and -

ammuni tion fought their way against the

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v e knot current of a river that ran from

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t wo to ten miles wi de in a channel many

fathoms d eep Malakoff deci ded to build

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the fort at Nul ato Subi enk ow urged t o .

go farther But he quickly reconciled

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hims elf to N ul ato The long winter was

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coming on It would be better to wa it

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Early the f ollowi ng summ er when the ,

i ce was gone he woul d di sappear up the

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Kwi kpak and work hi s way to the Hudson

Bay Company s posts Malako had nev er

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heard the whisper that the K wikpak was

the Yukon and Subi enkow di d not tell
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hi m .

Came the bui l di ng of the fort . It was

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enf orc ed labour The ti ered wall s of logs

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aros e to t he sighs and groans of the Nul ato

Indi ans The lash was laid upon their
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backs and it was t he iron hand of t he

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freebooters of the sea that laid on t he lash .

Ther e wer e Indi ans that ran away and ,

wh en they w er e caught th ey wer e brought

back and spr ead eagl ed b efor e the fort
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where th ey and th eir trib e learn ed t he

e f cacy of the knout Two di ed un der i t ;
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oth ers were inj ur ed for life ; and the r est

took the lesson to heart and ran away no
more The snow wa s ying er e t he for t
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was ni sh ed and then it was the tim e for

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furs A heavy tribute was laid upon the

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trib e Blows and lashings continu ed and

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that the tribute shoul d b e paid the wom en ,

and children wer e held as host ag es and

treated with the barbari ty that only the
fur thi eves knew
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Well it had been a sowi ng of blood and

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now was come the harvest The fort was .

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gone In the li ght of i ts bur ni ng half the

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fur thi eves had been cut down

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The other .

half ha d passed under the torture O nl y .

Subi enk ow rema i ned or Subi enk ow and ,

Big Ivan if that whi mp ering moa ni ng

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thi ng i n t he snow coul d be call ed B i g Ivan .

Su bi enk ow caught Y a kaga grinning at

hi m There was no gainsaying Y aka ga
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The mark of the lash was still on hi s face .

A fter all Subi enk ow coul d n ot blame hi m

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but he dislik ed t he thought of what Yaka ga

would do to hi m He thought of appeali ng .

to Maka muk the head chief ; but hi s

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j udgment told him that such appeal was

useless Then t oo he thought of bursti ng
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his bonds and dying ghting Such an .

en d woul d be q ui ck But he coul d n ot .

br eak hi s b onds Carib ou thongs were .

stronger than he Still devising another .

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thought came to hi m He signed for .

Makamu k and that an interpret er who

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knew the coast di alect shoul d be brought .

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Oh Makamuk he said
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I am not ,

minded to die I am a great man and it

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wer e foolishness for me to die I n truth .

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I shall not die I am not lik e th ese oth er

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carrion .

H e look ed at the moani ng thing that

had once been Big Ivan and stirred i t c on
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t emptu ou sly with hi s t oe .

I am too wise to di e B ehold I have .

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a great me di cine I alone know thi s medi

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cine Sinc e I a m not going to di e I shall

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exchange thi s medicine with you .

What i s this me di cin e 2 Makamuk '

d emanded .

It is a strange medi cine .

Subi enkow debated wi th hi mself for a

moment as if loth t o part with the secret
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I will tell you A little bit of thi s
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me di cine rubbed on the skin makes the

skin hard like a rock hard lik e i ron so
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that no cutting weapon can cut i t The .

strongest blow of a cutti ng wea pon i s a

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vain thing against it A bone kni fe becomes

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like a piece of mud ; and it wi ll turn the

edge of the iron knives we have brought
among you What will you give me for
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t he secret of the me di cine 2

I wi ll gi ve you your li fe Ma ka muk ,

made a ns wer through the int erpreter .

Subi enk ow laughed scornful ly .

And you shall be a slav e i n my house

until you di e .

The P ole laugh ed more scornfull y .

Untie my hands and feet and let us

ta lk he sa i d
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The chi ef made the sign ; and when he

was loosed Subi enkow roll ed a cigarette and
li ghted it .

Thi s is f ooli sh talk sa i d Ma kamuk

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There is n o such me di cine It cannot be

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A cutting edge i s stronger than any medi

ci n e
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The chi ef was incredul ous and yet he ,

waver ed He had seen t oo many deviltri es

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of fur thi eves that worked He coul d not
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wholly doubt .

I will give you your li fe but you shall

not be a slav e he announced
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Mor e than that

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Subi enk ow played hi s gam e as coolly as

if he were bartering for a foxski n .

It is a very great medi cine It has .

saved my li fe many ti mes I want a sled .

and dogs and six of your hunters to trav el

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with me down the riv er and giv e me safety

to on e day s sle ep fr om Mi cha elov ski R e

doubt.

You must li ve here and teach us all ,

of your deviltri es was the reply
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Su bienk ow shrugged hi s shoul d ers and

remained silent He blew cigar ette smoke
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ou t on the icy air and curiously regarded

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what r emain ed of the big Cossa ck .

That scar ! Ma kamuk sa i d suddenl y

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pointing t o the P ole s neck where a livi d

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mark advertised the slash of a knife in a

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You hav e committed an offence against
my medicine in that you di d not at onc e
acc ept my t erms B ehold I n ow d emand
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more I want one hundr ed b eav er skins
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( M a k a mu k sneer ed
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) I want on e hundred
pounds of dried sh (
. Ma k a m uk nodded ,

for sh were pl entiful and cheap ) I want

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two sl eds on e for me and on e for my furs

and sh And my r i e must be r eturned

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to me I f you do not lik e the pri ce in a

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littl e while t he price will grow .

Y aka ga whispered to the chief .

But how can I know your medi cine is

true medi cine 23 Makamuk ask ed .

It is v ery easy First I shall go i nto

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the woods
Again Y akaga whispered to Makamuk ,

who made a suspicious di ss ent .

Y ou can send twenty hunters wi th me ,

Su bi enkow w ent on You see I must

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g et the b erri e s and t he roots with whi ch

to make the medi ci ne Then when you .
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have brought the two sleds and loaded on
them t he sh and t he b eav er skins and t he
r i e and wh en you hav e told off the six
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hunters who wi ll go wi th me th en when ,

all is ready I wi ll rub t he medi ci ne on my

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neck so and lay my neck there on that

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log Th en can your strong est hunter take

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t he axe and str ike thr ee times on my neck .

Y ou yourself can strike the thr ee times .

Ma ka mu k stood with gaping mouth ,

dri nk ing in thi s late st and most wonderful

magic of the fu r thi eves -
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But r st t he P ole added hasti ly b e
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tween each blow I must put on fr esh

medi cine The axe is heavy and sharp
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and I want no mistakes .

All that you have ask ed shall be yours ,

Makamu k cri ed i n a rush of acceptance .

Proceed to make your medici ne .

Subi enk ow concealed hi s elation He .

was playing a desp erat e game and there ,

must b e no sli p s He s p oke arrogantly

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You have been slow My medi cine is .

offended To mak e the offence clean you

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must giv e m e your daught er .

H e point ed to the girl an unwholesome ,

creatur e with a cast in one eye and a

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bristling wolf tooth Mak amuk was angry

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but t he P ole r emained impertu rb able rolling ,

and lighting anoth er cigarette .

Mak e haste he thr eatened

, If you .

are not qui ck I shall demand yet more
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I n t he sil ence that foll ow ed the dreary ,

northl and scene faded before hi m and he ,

saw onc e more hi s native land and France , ,

and once as he glanced at the wolf toothed

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girl he rememb ered another girl a singer

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and a dancer whom he had known wh en

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rst as a youth he came to Paris .

What do you want with the girl 7 :

Makamuk asked .

To go down t he river wi th me Subi .

enk ow glanc ed her over criti cally She .

will mak e a good wi fe and it is an honour

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worthy of my medi cine to b e married to

your blood .

Again he remembered the singer and

dancer and bummed aloud a song she had
taught hi m He li ved the old li fe over
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but in a detached impersonal sort of way

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looki ng at the memory pictur es of hi s own -

li fe as if th ey were pictures in a b ook of

anyb ody s life The chi ef s voice abruptly
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breaking the silence startl ed hi m , .

It shall be done
said Makamu k , .

The girl shall go down t he river with you .

But b e it un derstood that I myself strike

the three blows wi th the axe on your

But each ti me I shall put on the medi

cine Subi enk ow answered wi th a show
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of ill conceal ed anxi ety

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Y ou shall put the medi ci ne on between

each blow Here are the hunters who shall
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see you do not escap e G o i nto the forest

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and gather your medi ci ne .
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Makamuk had b een convinced of the

worth of the medi cine by the P ol e s rapacity .

Surely nothi ng l ess than the great est of

m edi cines coul d enable a man in the shadow
of d eath to stand up and dr ive an old

woman s bargain

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B esid es whisper ed Y a ka ga when the
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P ole with hi s guard had di sa ppeared among

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t he S pruc e trees when you have learn ed

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t he me di cine you can easily destroy hi m .

But how can I d estroy him 2 Maka

muk argu ed His me di cine will n ot let

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me destroy him .

Th ere wi ll b e some part where he has

not rubbed the m edi cin e was Ya ka ga s ,

reply . We will d estroy hi m thr ough that

part It may be hi s ears Very well ; we
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will thrust a spear in on e ea r and out the

other Or it may be hi s eyes Sur ely t he
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medi cine will be much too strong to rub on

hi s eyes .

The chi ef nodded You are wi se

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Ya kaga I f he possesses no other devi l

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thi ngs we will then destroy hi m
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Su bi enk ow di d not waste ti me in gather

ing the ingredi ents for hi s medi cine He .

selected whatsoever came to hand such as

spruce needles the i nn er b ark of the will ow
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a stri p of birch bark and a quantity of ,

moss berries whi ch he made the hunters

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di g up for hi m from beneath the snow .

A few frozen roots completed his supply ,

and he led the way back to camp .

Maka muk and Ya ka ga crouched besi de

hi m noting t he quantities and kinds of
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t he i ngre di ents he dropp ed i nto the pot of

b oili ng water .

You must b e care ful that the m oss

berri es go in rst he explained , .

And o h yes o
,n e other t hi
ng the
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nger of a man Here Yak aga let me cut

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of f your nger .

But Yaka ga put hi s hands behi nd hi m

and scowled .
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Just a small ng er , Subi enk ow
pleaded .

Yaka ga , giv e hi m your nger Maka ,

muk commanded .

Th ere be plenty of ngers lying around ,

Yakaga grunt ed indi cating the human

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wreckage in the snow of t he score of persons

who had b een tortured to d eath .

It must be the nger of a live man ,

t he P ole obj ected .

Then shall you have the ng er of a

live man Y akaga strode over to the Cos

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sack and sliced off a nger .

He is not yet d ead he announced , ,

inging the bloody trophy i n the snow at

the Pole s f eet Also it is a good nger
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because it is large .

Su bi enk ow dropped it into the re under

the pot and began to sing I t was a French .

love song that with great solemni ty he sang

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i nto the brew .

Without these words I utter into it the ,

30 L O ST FACE
An outc ry interrupted hi s play acting -
.

The giant Cos sack wi th a last r esur g ence

,

of hi s tremendous vitali ty had aris en to ,

his knees Laughter and cries of surpr is e

.

and applause arose from the Nulat os as ,

Big Ivan b egan inging hims elf about i n

the snow wi th mighty spa sms .

Subi enk ow was made sick by the sight ,

but he mastered his qualms and m ade

believe to b e angry .

This will not d o he sa id Finish

, .

hi m and then we will mak e the test Here

, .
,

you Ya ka ga see that hi s noise ceases

, , .

While thi s was being done Su bi enkow ,

turned to Makamuk .

And rem ember you are t o strike hard

, .

Thi s is not baby work Here take the axe

-
.
,

and strike the log s o that I can see you

,

strike like a man .

Makamuk ob eyed striki ng twi ce pre

, ,

cisely and wi th vi gour cutting ou t a large ,

 L O ST FACE 31

I t is well . Subi enkow

looked about
hi m at the circle of savage faces that
somehow seemed to symb olize the wall of
savagery that had hemmed hi m ab out ever
since the Czar s police had rst arrested

him in Warsaw .Take your axe Maka ,

muk and stand so I shall li e down

, . .

Wh en I raise my hand strik e and strike

, ,

with all your might And be careful that

.

n o on e stands behi nd you The m edi cine

.

i s good and the axe may bounce from off

,

my neck and right out of your hands .

H e looked at the t wo sleds wi th the dogs ,

i n harness loaded with furs and sh His

, .

ri e lay on top of the beaver ski ns The .

six hunters who were to act as hi s guard

stood by the sleds .

Where is the girl i the P ole d emanded .

Bring her up t o the sleds before t he test

goes on .

When thi s had been carri ed out Suhien ,

kow lay down i n the snow resting hi s h ead

,
32 L O ST FACE
on the log like a tired chi ld about to sleep .

He had li ved so many drea ry years that

he was ind eed tired .

I laugh at you and your strength O ,

Maka muk he said , Strik e and stri ke

.
,

hard .

H e li ft ed hi s hand Ma ka muk swung.

t he axe a broadaxe for t he squaring of

,

logs The bright st eel ashed through

.

t he frosty air pois ed for a perc eptibl e i h

,

stant abov e Maka muk s h ead th en d es

,

c en d ed upon Su bi enk ow s bar e ne ck

Clear .

through esh and bone it cut its way ,

b iting de eply i nto the log beneath The .

amazed savag es saw the h ead bounce a

yard away fr om the blood spouting trunk -
.

There was a gr eat b ewilderm ent and

sil ence whi le slowly it began t o dawn in
,

the ir minds that there had b een no medici ne .

The fur thi ef had outwitted them Alone

-
.
,

of all th eir pr i soners he had e scaped the

,

tortur e T hat had b een the stake f or

.
 L O ST FACE 33

whi ch he played A great roar of laughter

.

went up Makamuk bowed hi s h ead in

.

shame The fur thi ef had fool ed hi m He

.
-
.

had lost face before a ll hi s people Still .

they continued to roar out the i r laught er .

Maka mu k turned and wi th b owed head ,

stalked away He kn ew that thenc eforth

.

he would be no longer known as Makamuk .

He would be Lost Face the record of hi s

shame would be wi th hi m unti l he di ed ;
and whenever the tribes gathered i n the
spring for the salmon or i n t he summer for ,

the tradi ng the story would pass back and

,

forth across the camp r es of how t he -

fur thi ef di ed p eaceably at a singl e stroke

-
, ,

by the hand of L ost Face .

Who was Lost Face ? he could hear ,

i n anti cipati on some insolent young buck

,

demand Oh L ost Face would be the
, ,

answer he who once was Maka muk in

,

t he days before he cut off the fur thi ef s

-

head .

3
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moustach e with one hand and languidly
wavi ng t he other hand to hi s friends on
shor e suddenly remembered som ethi ng and
,

sprang to the rail .

Oh Fred, he bawled Oh Fred .

,

The Fred d esired thrust a strapping
pair of shoulders through t he forefront of
the crowd on the bank and tried to catch
L ouis B on d ell s messag e The latt er gr ew

.

r ed in the face with vain vociferation Still .

t he wat er wid ened betw een stea mboat and

shore .

H ey you Captain Scott !
, , he y ell ed
at t he pilot hous e -
Stop the b oat I
.

The gongs clang ed and the big st ern ,

wh eel reversed then stopped All hands

, .

on steamboat and on bank took advantage

of t hi s respite to exchange nal new and , ,

imp erative farewells More futil e than ev er.

was Louis B ond ell s effort to make hims elf

heard The S ea ttle No 4 lost way and

. .

drifted d own stream and Ca ptain Scott

-

,
 TR US T 39

had to go ahead and reverse a second time .

His head di sappeared inside the pilot house-

,

coming into vi ew a mom ent later b ehi nd a

big megaphone .

N ow Capta i n Scott had a r emarkable

voice and the Shut up
, he launched at
the crowd on deck and on shore coul d have
been heard at the top ofMoosehi d e M ountain
and as far as Klond ike City This official
.

remonstrance from the pilot house Spread

~

a lm of silence over the tumul t .

No w what
, d y
o ou want to sa
y
9

Captain S cott demanded .

Tell Fred Churchi ll he s on the bank

there tell him t o go t o Macdonald It s .

in his safe a small gripsack of mine Tell .

hi m t o get i t and bri ng it ou t when he

comes .

In the sil ence Captain Scott bellowed the

message ashore through the megaphone
You Fred Churchi ll go to Macdonald
, ,

-
i n hi s sa f e small gri psack belongs t o
40 TR US T
L ouis B ond ell important ! Bring it out
when you com e Got it
Churchill waved hi s hand in tok en that
he had got it In truth had Macdonald
.
, ,

half a mil e away opened hi s window he d
, ,

hav e got it t oo The tumult of farew ell

, .

ros e again the gongs clanged and t he

, ,

S ea ttle No 4 w ent ahead swun g ou t into

.
,

t he stream turned on her he el and h eaded

, ,

down the Yukon B on dell and Churchill ,

waving farew ell and mutual affection to the

last .

That was in midsummer In the fall of .

t he y ear the W H Wi lli s started up t he

, . .

Yukon wi th two hundred homeward b ound -

pilgrims on b oard Among them wa s .

Churchill In his state room in the middl e

.
-

of a clothes bag was L oui s B on d ell s grip

-
, .

It was a small stout leather a ffair and its

, ,

w eight of forty pounds always made Chur

chi ll nervous when he wander ed too far
fr om it The m a n i n the adj oini ng state
.
 TR UST 41

room had a treasur e of gold dust hi dden -

similarl y in a cloth es bag and the pair of

-

th em ultimately arranged to stand watch

and watch While on e went down to eat
.
,

the other k ept an eye on the two state room -

doors When Churchi ll wanted t o tak e

.

a hand at whist the other man mounted

,

guard and wh en the oth er man wanted t o

,

relax hi s soul Churchi ll read four months

,
-

old newspap ers on a camp stool b etween the

two door s .

There wer e signs of an early wi nt er and ,

the questi on that was di scuss ed from dawn

till dark and far into the dark was wheth er
, ,

th ey woul d get out b efor e t he freeze up or -

b e compell ed to abandon the st eamb oat

and tramp ou t over the ice There w ere .

irritating delays Twi c e t he engines broke

.

down and had to b e tinkered up and each ,

tim e there were snow u rri es to warn them

of the imminenc e of wint er Nin e times .

the W H Willi s essayed t o ascend t he

. .
42 TR U ST
F ive Finger R apids with her i mpaired
-

machi nery and when she succeeded she

, ,

was four days be hi nd her very li beral

schedul e The qu estion that then arose
.

was wh ether or not the steamboat F lora

woul d wait for her above the B ox Ca on .

The str etch of water b etween the head of

the B ox Canon and the foot of the White
Horse Rapids was unnavi gable for stea m
'
boats and passengers were transhi pp ed
,

at that point walking around t he rapids

,

from one steamboat to the other There .

were n o t el ephones in the country h ence ,

no way of i nforming the waiting F lora that

the Wi lli s was four days late but coming , .

When t he W H Wi lli s pull ed into Whit e

. .

Horse it was l ear ned that the F lora had

,

waited thre e days over the limit and had ,

d eparted onl y a few hours before Also .

,

it was l earned that she would ti e up at

Tagish P ost till nin e o clock Sunday mom

in It wa s th en four o clock S aturday

g .
,
 TR U ST 43

aft ernoon The pilgrims call ed a meeting

. .

O n board was a large Peterb orough canoe ,

consigned to the police post at the head of

Lake Bennett . They agreed to be r espon
sible for it and to deli ver it Next they .
,

call ed for volunteers Two men w ere

n eeded to make a race for the F lora A .

score of men volunteered on the instant .

Among them was Churchi ll such being hi s ,

nature that he volunteered before he

thought of B ond ell s gr i psack When thi s

.

thought came to hi m he began to hope

,

that he woul d not be selected ; but a man

who had made a name as captain of a
coll ege football eleven as a president of
,

an athl etic club as a dog musher and a

,
-

stampeder in the Yukon and moreover , , ,

who possessed such shoulders as he had ,

no right to avoid the honour It was thrust .

upon hi m and upon a giganti c Ger man ,

Nick Antonsen .

Whi le a crow d of t he pilgrims the cano e ,

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ou th eir shoulders start ed on a trot ov er
,

t he portage Churchill ran to hi s state room

,
-
.

He turned the contents of the clothes bag -

on the oor and caught up the grip with ,

the int ention of intrusting it to t he man

next door Then the thought smot e him
.

that it was not hi s grip and that he had no

,

right to let it ou t of hi s own poss ession .

S o he dashed ashor e wi th it and ran up the

portag e changing it oft en from on e hand
,

to the oth er and wondering if it r eally did

,

n ot w eigh more than forty pounds .

It was half past four in the afternoon

-

wh en t he two m en start ed The current .

of the T hi rty Mil e River was so strong that

rar ely coul d th ey u se the paddl es It was .

out on on e bank with a tow line over the -

shoulders stumbling over the rocks forcing

, ,

a way through the underbrush Slipping ,

at ti mes and falli ng into t he wat er wadi ng ,

often up to the kn ees and waist and th en ,

wh en an insurmountabl e bluff wa s en
46 TR U ST
thi s happen ed Churchill di v ed and groped
,

in thr ee feet of wat er for t he gripsack .

He lost half an hour in recov ering it and ,

aft er that it was carried securely lash ed to

t he canoe AS long as the canoe oated it
.

was safe Antonsen j eered at the grip

.
,

and toward morni ng began to curs e it but

Churchi ll vouchsafed n o explanations .

Th eir d elays and mischances w ere en d

less On one swift bend around whi ch
.
,

poured a healthy young rapid th ey lost ,

two hours making a scor e of attempts

,

and capsizi ng twi c e At thi s point on b oth

.
,

banks were precipitous bluffs rising ou t

, ,

of deep wat er and along which th ey coul d

,

neither t ow nor pol e whi le th ey coul d n ot

,

gain wi th the paddles against t he current .

At each attempt th ey strained t o t he

utmost wi th the paddles and each tim e, ,

with h earts ni gh to bursting from the effort ,

th ey were played out and swept back Th ey .

succeeded nall y by an accident In the .

 TRUS T 47

Swi ft est current near the end

, anoth er of

failure a freak of t he current sheered the

,

canoe out of Churchi ll s control and ung

i t against t he bluff Churchill made a.

bli nd l eap at the bluff and landed in a

crevi ce Holding on wi th one hand he
.
,

h eld the swamped cano e with t he oth er till

Antons en dragged hi mself ou t of the water .

Th en th ey pull ed t he canoe ou t and r ested .

A fr esh start at thi s crucial point took th em

by Th ey landed on the bank ab ov e and
.

plunged immed iat ely ashore and into t he

brush with the t ow line -
.

Day light found th em far below Tagish

P ost At nine o clock Sunday morni ng
.

th ey could h ear t he Flora whi stli ng her

departur e And when at ten o clock th ey
.
, ,

dragged themselves in to the P ost they ,

coul d j ust barely see the F lora s smoke far

to the southward It was a pair of worn

.

out tatterdemalions that Captain Jone s of

the M ounted P oli ce welcomed and fed and ,
48 TR UST
he afterward av erred that th ey poss essed
two of the most trem endous app etit es he
had ev er obs erv ed Th ey lay down and
.

sl ept in th eir wet rags by the stove At .

t he en d of two hours Churchi ll got up ,

carried Bond ell e grip whi ch he had used

for a pi llow down to the cano e kicked

, ,

Antons en awak e and start ed in pursui t of

,

t he F lor a .

Th ere s no telling what might happ en

machi nery br eak down or som ething was , ,

hi s r eply to Captain J on es s expostulations

.

I m goi ng t o catch that stea mer and send

her back for the b oys .

Tagish Lak e was whi te with a fall gale

that blew in their te eth Big swinging .
,

seas rushed upon the can oe compelli ng on e ,

man to bale and leavi ng on e man to paddle .

H eadway coul d n ot be made They ran .

along the shallow shore and went over

b oard one man ahead on the tow li n e the
,
-

oth er shoving on the canoe They fought .

 TR UST 49

t he gale up to their wa i sts i n theicy water ,

often up to their necks often over their ,

heads and buried by the big crested waves , .

There was n o rest never a mom ent s pause
,

from the cheerless heart breaking battle

,
-
.

That ni ght at the head of Tagish Lake in

, ,

t he thi ck of a driving snow sq uall they -

,

overhaul ed the F lora Antonsen fell on .

board lay where he had fall en and snor ed

, ,
.

Churchi ll looked like a wi ld man His .

cloth es bar ely clung to him His face wa s .

iced up and swollen from t he protracted

effort of twenty four hours whi l e hi s hands
-

w ere so swoll en that he coul d not close the

ngers A s for hi s f eet it was an agony
.
,

t o stand upon them .

The captain of the F lora was loth t o go

back to W hi te Horse Churchi ll was per .

sistent and imperative ; t he captain was

stubb orn He point ed ou t nally that
.

nothi ng was t o be ga i ned by going back ,

b ecause t he o nl y ocean st eamer at Dyea ,

4
50 TRUST
the Athenia n was to sail on Tu esday morn
,

ing and that he could not mak e t he back

,

trip to White Hors e and bring up the

strand ed pi lgri ms i n time to make the
connection .

What tim e do es the Athenia n sa il 7

Churchi ll demanded .

Seven o clock Tuesday morni ng , .

A ll right Churchi ll said at the sam e
, ,

time kicki ng a tattoo on t he ribs of t he

snoring Antonsen Y ou go b ack t o Whit e
.

Horse We ll go ah ead and hold the
.

Athenia n .

Antons en stupid wi th sl eep not yet

, ,

clothed in his waki ng m i nd was bun dl ed ,

into t he cano e and di d n ot r eali z e what

,

had happened till he was dr enched with

the icy spray of a big sea and h eard ,

Churchi ll snarling at hi m through the

darkness

Paddle can t you D o you want t o be
,

swamped ?
 TR UST 51

Daylight found them at Caribou Crossing ,

t he wind dying down and Antons en t oo far

,

gone t o dip a paddle Churchi ll ground ed

.

the canoe on a qui et beach where they ,

sl ept He took the precaution of twi sting

.

hi s arm und er the weight of his h ead .

Every few m i nutes the pain of the p ent

circul ati on aroused him wher eupon he
'

would look at his watch and twi st t he oth er

arm under hi s head At the en d of two
.

hours he fought with Antons e n t o rouse

him Th en they started L ak e Benn ett
. .
,

thi rty miles in length was like a mill pond

,
-

but half way across a gale from the south

, ,

smot e them and turned the water whi te .

Hour after hour they rep eate d t he struggle

on Tagish over the side pulling and shoving
, ,

on the cano e up t o their waists and n ecks

, ,

and ov er the i r heads in the icy water ;

,

toward the last the good natur ed giant -

played completely out Churchi ll drove .

him mercilessly ; but when he pitch ed

52 TR U ST
forward and bade fair t o drown in thr ee
feet of water the oth er dragged him into
,

t he cano e After that Churchi ll fought on

.
,

alone arriving at the polic e pos t at the head

,

of B enn ett in t he early aft ernoon H e .

tri ed to help Antons en ou t of the cano e ,

but failed H e listened to the exhaust ed

.

man s h eavy br eathi ng and envi ed hi m

when he thought of what he hims elf had yet

to und ergo Antonsen could li e ther e and
.

sl eep ; but he b ehi nd time must go on

, ,

over mighty C hi lcoot and down to the sea .

The r eal struggle lay befor e hi m and he ,

al most regretted the strength that r esided

in hi s fram e because of the torm ent i t could
inict upon that frame .

Churchill pull ed the canoe up on the

beach seized B on d ell s grip and started
,

on a limping d og trot for the police -

post .

There s a canoe down there consigned ,

to you from Dawson he hurl ed at the ,
54 TR UST
tripp ed hi m up and threw him violently
,

to t he ground .

At t he far en d of the portage he bought

an old set of pack straps for a dollar and
-

in th em he swung t he grip Also he .

,

chart ered a launch to run hi m the six mil es

to t he upper end of Lak e Lind erman where ,

he arriv ed at four in the afte rnoon The .

Athen ia n was to sa il from D yea next m om

ing at s even Dyea was twenty eight mil es
.
-

away and between towered C hi lcoot H e

, .

sat down to adj ust his foot g ear for the -

long climb and woke up He had doz ed

, .

t he instant he sa t down though he had not

,

sl ept thirty seconds He was afraid hi s

.

next doze might b e long er so he ni shed ,

xing hi s foot gear standi ng up Even then

-
.

he was ov erpowered for a e eti ng mom ent .

H e experi enc ed the ash of unconscious

ness ; becoming aware of it in mid air as ,
-

hi s r elaxed b ody was S i nk ing to t he ground

and a s he caught himself tog eth er he ,
 TR U ST 55

stiffened his muscl es with a spasmodi c

wr ench and escaped the fall The sudden
, .

j erk back t o consciousness left hi m sick

and trembling He beat hi s h ead with t he
.

he el of hi s hand knocking wake ful ness into

,

the num bed brain .

Jack B u rn s s pack train was starting -

back light for Crater L ake and Churchill ,

was invited t o a mul e Burns wanted to .

put the gripsack on another animal but ,

Churchi ll held on to i t carrying it on his ,

sad dl e pomm el But he dozed and t he

'

-
.
,

grip persisted in dropping off t he pomm el ,

one side or the oth er each time wakening ,

hi m with a sickening start Then in the .

,

early darkness Churchi ll s m ul e brush ed

,

him against a proj ecting branch that laid

hi s cheek open To cap i t the m ul e
.
,

blundered off the trail and fell throwing ,

rider and gripsack out upon the rocks .

After that Churchi ll walked or stumbled

, ,

rather over t he a p ology for a trail lea di ng

, ,
56 TR US T
t he mul e Stray and awful odours drifting
.
,

from each sid e t he trail told of the hors es ,

that had died i n the ru sh for gold But he .

di d not mind He was too sleepy By the

. .

tim e Long L ak e was reached however he , ,

had recov ered from hi s sleepiness ; and at

D eep Lake he resigned the gripsack t o
Burns But thereafter by the light of
.
,

t he dim stars he kept hi s eyes on Burns

, .

Th ere wer e not going to be any accid ents

with that bag .

At Crat er Lake the pack train went into

,
-

camp and Churchi ll slinging the grip on

, ,

hi s back started the ste ep cli mb for the

,

summit F or the rst time on that pre

.
,

cipi t ou s wall he rea li zed how ti red he was

, .

H e crept and crawled lik e a crab burd en ed ,

by the weight of hi s li mbs A di stinct .

and painful effort of will was required each

tim e he li fted a foot An hallucination
'

cam e to hi m that he was shod with l ead ,

lik e a de ep sea diver an d it wa s all he

-

,
 TR U ST 57

co ul d do to resist t he d esire to reach down

and f eel the lead As for B on d ell s gripsack
.

it was inconc eivable that forty pounds

could weigh so much It pressed him down
.

like a mountain and he looked back wi th

,

unbeli ef t o the year before wh en he had ,

cli mbed that sam e pass wi th a hundr ed and

fty pounds on hi s back I f thos e loads .

had weighed a hun dred and fty pounds ,

then B ond ell s grip weighed ve hundr ed

.

The rst ri se of the di vi de from Crater

L ake was acroiss a small glacier Here was .

a well d e n ed trail But above the glacier

-
.
,

which was also ab ove timber li ne was -

,

naught but a chaos of naked rock and

enormous boulders There wa s no way of
.

seeing the trail in the darkness and he ,

blundered on payi ng thrice the ordi nary

,

exerti on for all that he accompli sh ed He .

won t he summit in the thi ck of howling

wind a n ddriving snow provi d entially stum
,

bli ng upon a small deserted t ent into w hi ch

, ,
58 TR UST
he crawl ed Th er e he found and b olted
.

som e anci ent fri ed potatoes and half a dozen

raw eggs .

Wh en the snow ceased and the wind

eas ed down he began the almost impossibl e
,

descent . There was n o trail and he ,

stum bled and blunder ed often ndi ng him,

self a t t he last mom ent on t he edg e of

, ,

rocky walls and ste ep slopes the depth of

whi ch he had no way of j udging Part .

way down the stars clouded over again

, ,

and in the consequent obscurity he slipped

and rolled and slid for a hundr ed feet land ,

ing bruised and bl eedi ng on t he b ottom of

a large shall ow hole From all ab out hi m
.

arose the st ench of dead horses The hole .

was handy to the trail and the packers had

,

made a practice of tumbling into it th eir

broken and dyi ng animals The stench .

overpowered hi m making hi m deathly sick

, ,

and as in a nightmare he scram bled ou t .

Halfway up he recollected B ondell s grip

,

 TR U ST 59

sack . It had fallen into the hole with him

t he pack strap had evidently brok en and
-

he had forgotten it .Back he w ent into

t he p estilential charn el pit where he crawl ed
-

around on hands and knees and groped for

half an hour Altog ether be encount ered
.

and coun ted sev ent een dead horses ( and one
horse still alive that he shot with hi s
revolver) before he found B on d ell s grip
.

Looking back upon a lif e that had not been

without valour and achi evement he n u ,

hesitatingly d eclar ed to hi mself that thi s

r eturn after the grip was the most heroic act
he had ever performed S o heroic was it
.

that he was twi ce on the verge of fainting

before he crawi ed ou t of the hol e .

By the time he had descended to the

S cal es the steep pitch of Chi lcoot was past
, ,

and the way became easi er Not that it .

was an easy way how ever in the b est of

, ,

places but it becam e a r eally possible trail ,

along which he could have mad e good

60 TR US T
time if he had not be en worn out if he had ,

had light with w hi ch to pick hi s st eps and ,

if it had n ot bee n for R ondell s gripsack .

To hi m in his exhausted conditi on it was

, ,

the last straw Having barely strength to

.

carry hi mself along the additional weight

,

of the grip was s ufc i ent t o throw hi m nearly

ev ery time he tripped or stumbled And -

wh en he escaped tripping branches reached ,

out in the darkn ess hooked the grip between

,

hi s shoulders and h eld hi m back

, .

His mind was mad e up that i f he m i ss ed

the Athen ia n it would be the fault of the
gripsack In fact only two thi ngs remained
.
,

in hi s consci ousness B ond ell s gri p and

the steamer He knew only those two

.

thi ngs and they became identi ed i n a

, ,

way with som e stern m i ssion upon which

,

he had j ourn ey ed and toi led for centuri e s .

He walk ed and struggl ed on as in a dream .

As part of the dream was his arrival at

Sh eep Camp He stumbled into a saloon
.
,
62 TR UST
dang er and dr ew hi s r evolv er Still i n the .

dream he saw two men st ep ou t and h eard

,

th em halt him His revolv er w ent off four

.

times and he sa w t he ashes and heard t he

,

explosions of their revolv ers Also he was

.
,

aware that he had been hit in the thigh .

H e saw on e man go down and as the oth e r

, ,

cam e for hi m he smashed him a straight

,

blow with t he h eavy revolv er full in t he

fac e Then he turn ed and ran H e cam e
. .

from the dr eam shortly aft erward to nd ,

hims elf plunging down t he trail at a li mping

lop e His rst thought was for the grip
.

sack I t was still on hi s back He was

. .

convi nc ed that what had happened was a

dr eam ti ll he f elt for hi s r evolver and found
it gone N ext he b ecame aware of a sharp
.

stinging of hi s thi gh and after i nvestigating

, ,

he found hi s hand warm with blood It was .

a supercial wound but it was in con test

,

able He becam e wid er awak e and k ept

.
,

up t he lumb ering run to Canyon City .

 T R UST 63

He found a man with a team of hors es

,

and a wagon who got ou t of b ed and har

,

n ess ed up for twenty dollars Churchill

.

crawled in on the wagon bed and slept-

,

t he gripsack still on hi s back It was a

.

rough ride over water washed boul ders

,
-

down the Dyea Valley ; but he roused

only when the wagon hi t the highest places .

Any altitude of hi s body ab ove the wagon

b ed of less than a foot di d n ot faz e hi m .

The last mile was smooth going and he ,

sl ept soun dl y .

He came to in t he grey dawn t he dri v er

,

shaki ng hi m savag ely and howli ng into his

ear that the Athenia n was gone Churchi ll
.

looked blankly at the d eserted harbour .

There s a smoke ov er at Skagu ay the

man said .

Churchill s eyes w ere t oo swollen t o see
that far but he said : It s she Get m e
,

.

a b oat.

The dri ver was obli ging and foun d a ski ff ,

64 TR U ST
and a man to row it for t en dollars paym ent ,

in advance Churchi ll paid and was h elped

.
,

into the skiff It was beyond hi m t o get

.

in by hi mself It wa s six mil es to Skaguay

.
,

and he had a bli ssful thought of sl eeping

those six miles But the man did n ot
.

know how to r ow and Churchi ll took the

,

oars and toil ed for a few more centuri es .

H e nev er kn ew six long er and mor e ex

cruciating rmles A snappy littl e br eeze

bl ew up t he inl et and h eld hi m back He .

had a gone fe eling at the pit of the stomach ,

and suffered from faintness and numbn ess .

At hi s command the man took the baler

,

and thr ew salt wat er into hi s face .

The Athen ia n s anchor was u p and down

- -

when they came alongside and Churchill ,

was at the end of hi s last remnant of

strength.

Stop her ! Stop her ! he shouted

hoarsely. Impor tant message ! Stop
her
 TRUST 65

Th en he dropped hi s chi n on hi s chest and

sl ept When half a dozen men started to
.

carry hi m up t he gang plank he awoke -

, ,

reached for the gri p and clung to it lik e a

,

drowni ng man .

On deck he became a centre of horror and

curiosity The clothi ng in whi ch he had
.

l eft Whi te Horse was represented by a few

rags and he was as frayed as hi s clothi ng
,
.

H e had travelled for fty v e hours at the -

top notch of enduranc e He had sl ept six .

hours in that time and he was twenty ,

pounds lighter than when he started Face .

and hands and body were scratch ed and

b rui sed and he could scarcely s ee He
, .

tried to stand up but failed sprawli ng ou t

, ,

on the deck hanging on t o t he gripsack

, ,

and deli vering hi s message .

N ow put me to bed he ni shed
, , I ll

eat wh en I wake up .

They did hi m honour carryi ng hi m down

,

i n hi s rags and dirt and depositing him and

5
66 TRUS T

B ond ell grip in the bridal chamber whi ch
s ,

was t he biggest and most luxurious state

room i h the s hi p Twic e he sl ept the clock
.

around and he had bath ed and shaved and

,

eaten and was l ea ni ng over the rail smoki ng

a cigar when the t wo hundred pilgri ms from
Whi te Horse came alongside .

By the tim e the Athenia n arrived i n

S eattle Churchi ll had fully recup erated
, ,

and he went ashor e wi th B ond ell s grip in

hi s hand He felt proud of that grip To

. .

hi m it stood for achi evement and integrity

and trust I ve delivered the goods
.
,

was the way he express ed these various

hi gh te rms to hi mself It wa s early in .

the eveni ng and he went straight t o B on

,

dell s home L oui s B ondell was glad t o see

.

hi m sha ki ng hands wi th b oth hands at the

,

same ti me and draggi ng hi m i nto the house .

Oh thanks old man ; i t was good of

, ,

to bring it u t B on d ell said when he

y o u o ,

rece ived the gripsa ck .

 TR U ST 67

He tossed it carelessly upon a couch and ,

Churchi ll noted wi th an appreci ative eye the

r ebound of its weight from the springs .

B ond ell was volley i ng hi m wi th questi ons .

How did you make out ? How re the
boys What became of Bill Smith er s
Is Del B i shop still with P i erce ? Did he
sell my d ogs ? H ow did Sulphur B ottom
Show up

You re looki ng ne What .

steamer di d you come ou t ou ?

'

To all of whi ch Churchi ll gave answer t i ll ,

half an hour had gone by and the rst lull

in the conversati on had arrived .

Hadn t you better take a look at it
he suggested nod di ng hi s head at the grip
,
-1

sack.

Oh i t s all ri ght B on dell answered
, , .

D i d Mi tchell s dump turn ou t as much as
he expected

I thi nk you d better look at i t Churchi ll

i ns i sted . When I deli ver a thi ng I want ,

to be sati sed that i t s all ri ght There s .

68 TR UST
always the chance that somebody might
have got i nto it when I was asleep or some ,

thing .

It s nothing important old man , ,

B on d ell answ er ed with a laugh , .

Nothing important Churchi ll echo ed ,

i n a faint small voice Then he spoke with

, .

Louis what s i n that bag

decision ,

I want to know .

L oui s locked at him curiously then l eft ,

the room and r eturn ed with a bunch of

keys He inserted hi s hand and dr ew out a

.

heavy 44 Colt s revolver N ext came out

.

a few b ox es of ammunition for the r evolver

and s ev eral boxes of Winch ester cartridges .

Churchi ll took the gripsack and looked

into it Th en he turned it upsid e down and
.

shook it gently .

The gun s all rusted B on dell said

, .

Must hav e been out in t he rain

Yes Churchi ll answer ed
,
Too bad .

it got wet I guess I was a bit carel ess
. .
T O B UILD A FIRE
 TO B UILD A FIRE

AY had broken cold and grey exc eed ,

i ngly cold and grey when t he man,

turned aside from the main Yukon trail

and climbed the hi gh earth bank wher e a
,
-

di m and little travelled trail led eastward

-

through the fat spruce timberland It .

was a ste ep bank and he paused for breath

,

at t he top excusing t he act t o himself by

,

looking at hi s watch It was nin e o clock

.

.

Th ere was n o su n nor hint of sun though ,

th er e was not a cloud in the sky It was .

a clear day and yet there seemed an i h

,

tangible pall ov er the fac e of thi ngs a subtl e ,

gloom that made the day dark and that ,

was d u e t o t he absenc e of su n T hi s fact .

did not worry the m a n He wa s us ed t o

.

73
74 TO B UILD A FIRE

the lack of sun It had been days S ince he

.

had s een the su n and he knew that a few

,

more days must pass before that cheerful

orb due south would j ust pe ep above the
, ,

S ky line and dip imme di ately fr om view

-
.

The man ung a look back along the way

he had come The Yukon lay a mil e wi d e
.

and hi dd en under three feet of ice On top .

of thi s ice were as many feet of snow It .

wa s all pure whi te rolling in gentle u ndu la

,

tions where the ice j ams of the freeze u p

- -

had formed North and south as far as

.
,

his eye could see it was unbroken white

, ,

save for a dark hair line that curved and

-

twisted from around the spruce covered -

isl and to the south and that curved and

,

twisted away into the north where it di sap ,

ea r ed behind another spruce covered is

p
-

.
-
land This dark hair li ne was the trail t he
main trail that led south v e hundred miles
to the C hi lcoot Pass Dyea and salt water ;
, ,

an d that led north s ev enty mil es t o Dawson ,

 TO B U ILD A FIRE 75

and still on t o the north a thousand miles

to Nulato and nally to St M ichael on
, .

Bering S ea a thousand miles and half a

,

thousand more .

But all thi s the mysterious far reaching ,

-

hair line trail the absence of sun from the

-
,

sk the tremendous cold and the strange

y
, ,

ness and weirdness of it all made no i m

pression on the man It was not because .

he was long used t o it He was a new .

comer i n the land a checha quo and thi s was

, ,

his rst wi nter The trouble wi th hi m was

.

that he was without imaginati on He was .

quick and alert in the thi ngs of li fe but only ,

in the things and not in the signi cances

, .

Fifty d egrees below zero meant eighty odd -

d egrees of frost Such fact impres sed him

.

as being cold and uncomfortable and that ,

was all It did n ot lead hi m t o meditat e

.

upon hi s frailty as a creature of temperature ,

and upon man s frailty in general able only

to li ve w it hin certain narrow limits of he at

76 TO B U ILD A FIRE
and cold and from th ere on it di d not l ead
him to t he conj ectural eld of immortality
and man s place in t he u ni vers e Fifty

.

d egre es below zero stood for a bite of frost

that hurt and that must b e guard ed against
by t he use of mitt ens ear aps warm,
-

moccasins and thick socks Fift y d egr ees

, .

b elow z ero was t o him j ust pr ecisely fty

degre es below zero That th er e should b e
.

anythi ng more to it than that was a thought

that n ever entered hi s head .

A s he turned t o go on he spat speen ,

la tiv ely Th ere was a S harp explosive

.
,

crackl e that startled him H e S pat again

. .

And again in the air before it could fall

, ,

to t he snow t he Spittle crackl ed H e knew

, .

that at fty b elow Spittle crackled on t he

snow but thi s S pittle had crackl ed in the
,

air Undoubtedly it was cold er than fty

.

below how much cold er he di d not know .

But t he t emp erature di d not matt er H e .

wa s b ound for t he old cl aim on t he left

78 TO BUI LD A FIRE

fallen since the last sl ed had passe d ov er ,

and he was glad he was without a sled ,

trav elling light I n fact he carri ed nothi ng

.
,

but t he lunch wrapped i n the handk erchief .

H e was surprised however at t he cold

, , .

It certainly was cold he concluded as he

, ,

rubbed hi s numbed nose and che ek b ones -

wi th hi s mitt ened hand H e was a warm .

whi skered man but the ha i r on hi s face di d

,

not protect t he high cheek bones and the -

eag er nose that thrust i tself aggressively

into the frosty air .

A t the man s he els trott ed a d og a big

native husky t he prop er wolf dog grey

,
-

coated and without any vi sible or tempera

mental difference from it s brother the wi ld ,

wolf The ani mal was depressed by the

.

tremendous cold It knew that it was n o

.

ti me for trav elling Its insti nct told it a

.

tru er tale than was told t o the man by the

man s j udgment I n reality i t was not
.
,

merely colder than fty below z ero i t was

 T O BUIL D A F I R E 79

colder than s ixty below than seventy b e

,

low. It was seventy v e b elow z ero

-
.

Since the free zi ng point i s thi rty two abov e

- -

zero it meant that one hundred and seven

,

degrees of frost obtained The dog di d n ot

.

know anythi ng about thermometers Pos .

sibly i n its brain there was no S harp con

sci ou sn ess of a condi ti on of very cold such

as was i n the man s bra i n But the brute
.

had its i nsti nct It experi enced a vague

.

but menaci ng appreh ension that subdued it

and made i t slink along at the man s heels ,

and that made it questi on eagerly every

unwonted movement of the man a s if ex
p ecti n g hi m t o go into camp or to s eek
shelter somewhere and build a r e The .

d og had learned re and i t wanted re or

, ,

else to burrow under the snow and cuddle

i ts warmth away from the air .

The frozen moi sture o f i ts breathi ng had

settled on i ts fur i n a ne powder of frost ,

and especi ally were its j owls muzzle and , ,

80 T O BUILD A FIR E

eyelash es whi tened by its crystalled breath .

The man s red b eard and moustach e wer e

likewise frosted but more solidl y the

, ,

deposit taking the form of ice and increasing

with ev ery warm moist breath he exhal ed
,
.

Also t he man was ch ewing tobacco and

, ,

the muzzle of ice h eld hi s lips so ri gidly

that he was unabl e to clear hi s chi n when
he exp elled the j uice The r esul t was that
.

a crystal hea rd of t he colour and soli dity of

amber wa s increasing i ts length on hi s
chi n If he f ell down it would shatt er
.

its elf like glass into brittl e fragments

, ,
.

But he di d not mind t he appendag e It .

was the penalty all tobacco chewers paid -

in that country and he had been ou t b efore

,

in t wo cold snaps They had not been so

.

cold as thi s he knew but by t he spirit

, ,

thermometer at S ixty Mile he knew they

had been registered at fty b elow and at
fty v e
-
.

He h eld on through the l ev el stretch of

 TO BUI LD A FIRE 81

woods for several mil es crossed a wide at ,

of ni gger heads and dropped down a b ank

-
,

to the frozen bed of a small stream Thi s

was Hend erson Creek and he knew he was ,

ten m i l es from the forks He looked at .

hi s watch I t was ten o clock He was
. .

making four m i les an hour and he calcu ,

lated that he woul d arr ive at the f orks at

half past twelv e He deci ded t o c elebrate
-
.

that event by eati ng hi s lunch there .

The d og dropped i n aga i n at hi s heels ,

wi th a tail drooping di scouragement as the ,

man swung along the creek bed The -

.

furrow of the old sled trail was plai nl y -

vi sibl e but a dozen inches of snow covered

,

the marks of the last runners I na month .

-

n o man had come up or down that silent

creek The man held steadi ly on He was

. .

n ot much giv en t o thi nk i ng and j ust then ,

parti cul arly he had nothi ng t o thi nk ab out

sav e that he would eat lunch at the forks
and that at SIX o clock he woul d be in camp

6
82 TO B U ILD A FIRE

wi th the b oys There was nobody to talk

.

to and had there been speech woul d have

, ,

been i mpos s ible because of the i ce muzzl e -

on hi s mouth S o he continued mono

.

t on ou sly t o chew tobacco and t o incr ease

the length of hi s amber b eard .

Once i n a whi le the thought reiterat ed it

self that i t was very cold and that he had
never experienced such cold As he walked .

along he rubb ed hi s cheek b ones and nos e -

wi th the back of hi s m i ttened hand He .

di d thi s automati ca lly n ow and again

,

changing hand s But rub as he woul d

.
,

the instant he stopped hi s cheek bones went -

numb and the following insta nt the end of

,

hi s nos e went numb He was sure to frost

.

hi s cheeks he knew that and experienced ,

a pang of regret that he had n ot d evi sed

a nose strap of the sort Bud wor e in cold
-

snaps Such a strap passed across the

.

cheeks as well and saved them But i t

, , .

di dn t matter much after all What were
, .
 T O BUILD A FIRE 83

frosted cheeks ? A bit pa i nful that was ,

all ; they were never seri ous .

Empty as the man s mind was of

thoughts he was keenly observant and he

, ,

noticed the changes in the creek the curves ,

and bends and ti mber j ams and always he

-

sharply noted where he placed hi s feet .

Once coming around a bend he shi ed

, ,

abruptly li ke a startled horse curved away

, ,

from the place where he had been walki ng ,

and retreated s everal paces back along the

tra i l The cre ek he knew was froz en clear
.

t o the bottom no cre ek could contai n

,
-

water in that arctic winter but he knew ,

also that there were spri ngs that bubbled

ou t from the hillsid e s and ran along under

the snow and on t op the ice of the creek .

H e knew that the cold est snaps never froze

th ese spri ngs and he knew likewi se their
,

danger They were traps They hi d pools

. .

of water under the snow that m i ght b e

thr ee inches deep or three feet S ome

, .
84 T O BUILD A FIR E

times a ski n of ice half an inch thi ck cover ed

th em and in turn was covered by the snow
, .

S om etimes th er e wer e alternate lay ers of

water and ice skin so that when on e brok e
-

through he kept on breaking through for a

whi l e sometimes w etti ng hi mself to the
,

waist .

That was why he had shi ed in such panic .

H e had f elt t he giv e und er hi s f eet and

h eard the crackl e of a snow hi dd en ice -

skin And to get hi s fe et wet in such a

.

t emperature meant trouble and danger At .

t he v ery l east it meant d elay for he would

,

b e forced t o stop and b ui ld a re and und er ,

its prot ection t o bar e hi s f eet whi l ehe dri ed

hi s sock s and moccasins H e stood and
.

studi ed the creek bed and its banks and

-
,

decided that t he ow of water cam e from

the ri ght H e reected awhi le rubbing hi s
.
,

nose and che eks then ski rted t o the left

, ,

st epping gingerly and t esting the footing

for ea ch st ep Once clear of the danger
.
,
86 TO B UILD A FIRE

woul d mean sore feet It di d not know thi s

. .

It mer ely ob eyed the mysterious prompting

that arose from the deep crypts of its being .

But the man knew havi ng achi eved a

,
.

judgment on the subj ect and he remov ed ,

t he mitten from hi s right hand and help ed

tear ou t the i ce particles He di d not

-
.

expose hi s ngers more than a minute ,

and was astoni shed at the swift numbness

that smote them It certainly was cold
. .

He pulled on the mitten hastily and beat ,

the hand savagely across hi s chest .

At twelve o clock the day was at its
brightest Yet the sun was t oo far south
.

on i ts wi nter j ourney to clear the horizon .

The bul ge o f the earth intervened between

it and Henderson Creek where the man ,

walked under a clear sky at noon and cast

no shadow At half past twelve to the
.
-
,

minute he arr ived at the f orks of the creek

, .

H e was pleased at the speed he had made .

I f he k ept it up he would certainly b e with

,
 TO B UILD A FIRE 87

the boys by six He un buttoned hi s j acket

.

and shirt and drew forth his lunch The .

action consumed no more than a quarter

of a minute yet in that brief moment the
,

numbness laid hold of the exposed ngers .

He did not put the mitten on but i nstead , , ,

struck the ngers a dozen sharp smashes

against hi s leg Then he sat down on a
.

snow covered log t o eat The sting that

-
.

followed upon the striki ng of hi s ngers

against his leg c eased so qui ckly that he
was startled He had had n o chance to
.

ta ke a bite of biscui t He struck the .

ngers repeatedly and returned them to

the mitten baring the other hand for the
,

purpose of eating He tried to take a

.

mouthful but the ice muz zle prevented

,
-
.

He ha d forgotten to build a re and thaw

out He chuckl ed at hi s foolishness and
.
,

as he chuckled he noted the numbness

creepi ng i nto the exposed ngers Also he .
,

note d t hat the stinging whi ch ha d rst com e

88 TO B UILD A FIRE

to his toes wh en he sat down was already

passing away He wondered whether t he
.

toes were warm or num bed He moved .

them inside the moccasins and deci ded

that they were num bed .

He p ul led the mitten on hurrie dl y and

stood up H e was a bit frightened He
. .

stamped up and down until the stinging

returned into the feet It certainly was cold
.

was hi s thought That man fr om S ul phur

.

Creek had S poken the truth wh en telling

how cold it someti mes got in the country .

And he had laughed at hi m at the time !

That showed one must n ot b e too sure of
thi ngs There was no mistake ab out it it
.
,

wa s cold He strode up and down stamp

.
,

ing hi s feet and threshi ng hi s arms until ,

rea ssured by the returning warmth Then .

he got ou t matches and proce ed ed to mak e

a re From the undergrowth where hi gh
.
,

water of the previous spring had lodged a

supp ly of seasoned twi gs he got hi s re
,
 TO B UILD A FIRE 89

wood Worki ng care full y from a small

.

beginni ng he soon had a roari ng re over

, ,

whi ch he thawed the i ce from hi s face and

in the protection of whi ch he ate hi s bis
cuits F or the moment the cold of space
.

was outwi tted The dog took sati sfaction

.

in the re stretchi ng ou t close enough for

,

warmth and far enough away to escape

being singed .

When the man had nished he lled hi s ,

pipe and took hi s comfortable time over a

smoke Then he pulled on hi s m i ttens
.
,

settled the ear aps of hi s cap rmly ab out

-

his ears and took the creek tra il up the

,

left f ork The dog was di sappointed and

.

yearned back toward the re Thi s man .

di d not know cold P ossibly all the genera .

tions of hi s ancestry had been ignorant of

cold of real cold of cold on e hundred and
, ,

seven degrees below freezing point But -

.

the dog knew ; all i ts ancestry knew and ,

it had i nherit ed the knowledg e A nd i t .

90 TO B UILD A FIRE
knew that it was not good to walk abroad
in such fearful cold It was the tim e to
.

li e snug in a hole in the snow and wait for

a curtain of cloud to be drawn across the
face of outer space whence thi s cold came .

On t he other hand there was n o keen

,

intimacy between the dog and the man .

The one was the toil slave of the other and

-

the only cares ses it had ever received were

the caresses of the whi p lash and of harsh
~

and menacing throat sounds that threa tened

-

the whi p lash S o the dog made n o effort

-
.

to communi cate its apprehension t o the

man It was not concern ed in the welfare
.

of the man it was for its own sake that it

yearned back toward the re But the man .

whistled and spoke to it wi th the sound

,

of whip lashes and the dog swun g in at

-
,

the man s heels and followed after .

The man took a chew of tobacco and pro

ceed ed to start a new amber bea rd Also .
,

hi s moi st breath quickly p owdered with

 TO BUILD A FIRE 91

whi te hi s moustache ey ebrows and lashes , ,

.

Ther e di d not seem t o be so many S pri ngs

on the left fork of the Henderson and for ,

half an hour the man saw no signs of any .

And then it happened At a place where .

there were no signs wher e the soft unbroken

, ,

snow seemed to advertise soli di ty benea th ,

the man broke through It was not deep . .

He wet hi mself halfway to the knees before

he ound ered out to the rm crust .

He was angry and cursed hi s luck aloud

, .

He had hoped to get into camp wi th the b oys

at six o clock and thi s woul d delay him an

hour for he woul d have to bui ld a re and

,

dry out hi s foot gear Thi s was imperative

-
.

at that low temperature he knew that
much ; and he turned aside t o the bank ,

whi ch he cli mbed On t op tangled i n .

,

the underbrush ab out the trunk s of several

small spruce trees was a hi gh water d epos i t
,
-

of dry e wood sticks and twi gs pri nci
r ,

pally but also larger porti ons of seasoned

,
92 TO B UI LD A FIRE

branch es and n e dry last year s grasses
, ,
-
.

H e threw down several large pi eces on top

of the snow Thi s served for a foun dation
.

and pr evented the young ame fr om drown

ing its elf in the snow it othe rwi se woul d
melt The ame he got by touchi ng a match
.

to a small shred of birch bark that he took -

fromhi s pock et This burned even mor e

.

readi ly than paper Placi ng it on the

.

foundation he fed the young ame with

,

wisps of dry grass and with the tiniest dr y

He worked slowly and carefully ke enl y ,

aware of hi s danger Gradually as the.

,

ame grew stronger he increased the size

,

of t he twigs with whi ch be fed it He .

squatted in t he snow pulli ng the twigs out

,

fr om their entanglement in the brush and

feeding directly t o the ame He knew .

there must be no failure When it is .

seventy v e b elow zero a man must not

-

f ai l in hi s rst attempt t o b ui ld a e that

r
94 TO BUIL D A FIRE
before it The blood was ali ve l ike the
.
,

d og and li ke the dog i t wanted t o hi de away

,

and cover i tself up from the fea rful cold .

S o long as he walked four m il es an hour he ,

pumped that blood wi lly ni lly t o the sur

,
-

face ; but n ow it ebbed away and sank

down into the recesses of hi s b ody The .

extr emiti es were the rst to fe el i ts ab sence .

Hi s wet feet froze the faster and hi s expos ed ,

ng ers numb ed the faster though they had ,

not yet begun t o fre ez e Nos e and checks .

were alrea dy freezing whi le the skin of ,

all hi s b ody chi ll ed as i t los t its blood .

But he was safe Toes and nose and

.

che eks would b e onl y touched by the fr ost ,

for the re was beginni ng t o b urn with

strength He was feedi ng i t wi th twi gs
.

the si z e of hi s nger In another m i nute

.

he woul d be able to feed it wi th branches

the siz e of hi s wri st and then he could
,

remove hi s wet foot gear and whi le it-

, ,

dri ed he could keep hi s naked feet warm

,
 T O BUILD A FIRE 95

by the re rubbing th em at rst of course

, , ,

wi th snow The re was a success He

. .

was safe He remembered the adv i ce of

.

the old ti mer on S ul phur Creek and sm il ed

-
, .

The old ti mer had been very serious in

-

laying down the law that no man must

travel alone i n the Klondi ke after fty
b elow Well here he was ; he had had
.
,

the acci dent ; he was alone ; and he had

saved hi mself Those old ti mers were
.
-

rather womani sh some of them he thought

, , .

All a man had t o d o was to keep his head ,

and he was all ri ght Any man who was .

a man could travel alone But it was su r .

prising the rapidi ty with whi ch hi s cheeks

,

and nose were free zi ng A nd he had not .

thought hi s ngers coul d go li feless i n so

short a time L i feless they were for he
.
,

could scarcely mak e them move together

to grip a twi g and they seemed remote
,

from hi s b ody and from hi m When he .

touched a twi g he had to look and see

,
96 T O B UILD A FIRE
wh ether or not he had hold of it The .

wir es were pretty well down between hi m

and hi s nger ends -
.

All of whi ch counted for li ttle Th ere.

was the re snapping and crackli ng and

,

promising life wi th every danci ng ame .

He started to untie hi s m occasins Th ey .

were coated with ice ; the thi ck German

socks were lik e sheaths of i ron halfway to
t he kne es ; and the moccasin strings were

li ke rods of ste el all twi sted an d knotted

as by some c ona grati on F or a moment
.

he tugged wi th hi s nu mbed ngers th en , ,

realizing the folly of it he drew hi s shea th

,

knife.

But befor e he coul d cut t he strings i t ,

happened It was hi s own faul t or rather

.
, ,

hi s mistake . He shoul d not hav e built the

re under the S pruce tree He S hould have
.

built it in the open But it had been easi er

.

t o pull the twi gs from the brush and drop

them di rectly on the re Now the tr ee .

98 TO B U ILD A FIRE
Creek was right I f he had only had a
.

trail mate he would hav e be en in no danger

-

now The trail mat e coul d have b ui lt the

.
-

re W ell it was up to hi m t o build the

.
,

re over again and thi s second ti me there

,

must be no failure Even if he succeeded .

,

he woul d mos t lik ely lose some toes His .

fe et must be ba dl y froz en by n ow and there ,

would be som e tim e before the s econd re

was ready .

Such were hi s thoughts but he di d not si t ,

and thi nk th em He was busy all the tim e

.

they were passing through hi s mind H e .

made a new foundati on for a re thi s tim e ,

in the open where no tr eacherous tree could

,

blot it ou t Next he gather ed dry grasses

.
,

and tiny twigs from t he high wat er otsam -

.

H e could not bring hi s ngers to gether to

pull th em ou t but he was abl e t o gath er
,

them by the handful I n thi s way he got .

many rotten twigs and b i ts of green moss

that were undesi rable but i t was the best ,
 TO B UI LD A F IR E 99

he could d o He work ed methodi cally

. ,

even collecti ng an armful of the larg er

branches t o b e used later when the re
gathered strength And all the whi le the .

dog sat and watched him a certa i n yearni ng ,

wi st fulness i n i ts eyes for it looked upon ,

hi m as the re provi der and the re was

-
,

Slow in com i ng .

When all was ready the ma n reached i n ,

hi s pocket for a second p i ece of b i rch bark -

.

He kn ew t he bark was there and though , ,

he could n ot feel it wi th hi s ng ers he coul d ,

h ea r its crisp rustli ng as he fumbled f or i t .

Try as he woul d he could n ot clutch hold

,

of it A nd all the ti me i n his consci ous

.
,

ness was the knowledge that each i nstant

,

hi s feet wer e free zi ng T hi s thought tended

.

to put hi m i n a panic but he fought against,

it and kept calm He pulled on hi s mittens

.

wi th hi s teeth and threshed hi s arms back

,

and forth beati ng hi s hands wi th all hi s

,

might aga i ns t hi s s i des He di d thi s S itti ng

.
100 T O BUILD A F I R E

down and he stood up to do it ; and a ll

,

the whi le the dog sat in the snow its wolf ,

brush of a ta i l curled around warm ly over

i ts forefeet i ts sharp wolf ea rs pri cked
,
-

forward intently as it watched the man .

And the man as he b eat and threshed wi th

hi s arms and hands felt a great surge of
,

envy as he regarded the creature that was

warm and secure in its natural coveri ng .

After a ti me he was aware of the rst

far away s i gnals of sensa tion i n hi s b eaten
-

ngers The fa i nt ti ngli ng grew stronger

.

till it evolved i nto a sti nging ache that was

excruci ati ng but whi ch the man hai led wi th
,

sati sfacti on He stripped the m i tten from

.

hi s ri ght hand and fetched forth the b i rch

bark The exp ose d ngers were qui ckly
.

goi ng numb agai n Next he brought ou t

.

hi s bunch of sul phur mat ches But the .

tremendous cold had already driven the

life out of hi s ngers I n hi s e ffort t o separ
.

ate on e match from the others the whole ,

10 2 TO B UI LD A FIRE

his mouth H e drew the low er j aw in

.
,

curled the upper lip ou t of the way and ,

scraped the bunch with hi s upper teeth in

order t o separate a match H e succeeded
.

in getting one whi ch he dropped on his

-

lap He was no better off He could not

. .

pick i t up Then he devi sed a way He

. .

picked it up in hi s te eth and scratched it

on hi s l eg Tw enty times he scratched b e
.

fore he succeeded i h li ghting it As it

.

amed he held it with hi s teeth t o the

birch bark But the burning brimstone
-
.

went up hi s nostrils and into his lungs ,

causing hi m t o cough spasmodically The.

match fell into the snow and went out .

The old timer on S ul phur Creek was right

-
,

he thought in the mom ent of controll ed

despair that ens ued : after fty below a ,

man shoul d travel with a partner He .

beat hi s hands but failed in exciting any

,

s ensation Suddenly he bar ed b oth hands

.
,

removi ng the m ittens wi th his teeth H e .

 TO BUILD A FIRE 10 3

caught the whole bunch between the heels

of hi s hands His arm mus cles n ot being
.
-

f rozen enabled hi m to press the hand heels -

tightly against the matches Then he .

scratched the bunch along hi s leg It .

ared into ame seventy sulphur matches

,

at once ! There was no wi nd to blow

them out He kept hi s head to one side
.

to escape the strangling fumes and held ,

t he blazing bunch to t he birch bark AS -

.

he so held it he became awar e of sensati on

,

i n his hand His esh was burni ng He

. .

coul d smell it D e ep down below the

.

surface he could fe el it The sensation .

dev eloped into pain that grew acute And .

still he endur ed it holdi ng t he ame of

,

the match es clumsily t o t he ba rk that woul d

not light rea di ly because hi s own burni ng
hands were in the way absorbing most of
,

the ame .

At last when he could endure no more

, ,

he j erked hi s hands a p art The bla zi ng .

10 4 TO B U ILD A FIRE
match es f ell S izzling into the snow but the
,

birch bark was alight H e began laying

-
.

dry grass es and the tini est twi gs on t he

am e H e could not pick and choose for
.
,

he had t o li ft the fu el betw een the he els of

his hands Small piec es of rotten wood
.

and green moss clung t o the twigs and he ,

bit them off as well as he could wi th hi s

teeth H e ch erish ed the am e carefully
.

and awkwar dl y It m eant life and it

.
,

must n ot p erish The withdrawal of blood

.

from the surfac e of hi s b ody n ow made hi m

begin to shi v er and he grew more awkward
, .

A large piec e of gr een m oss fell squarely

on th e little re He tri ed to poke it ou t
.

with hi s ng ers but hi s s hi vering frame

,

mad e him poke too far and he di srupted the

,

nucl eus of the little re the burning grass es

,

and tiny twigs separating and scatt ering .

He tried to pok e them together again but ,

in Spit e of the tenseness of the e ffort hi s ,

shi vering got away with him and the twigs

,
10 6 TO B UILD A FIRE

the matter and its su Spi ci ou s nature sensed

,

danger it knew n ot what danger but

,

Somewhere som ehow in its brain arose an

, ,

a r ehen si on of t he man It attened its

pp .

ears down at the sound of the man s voice ,

and its restless bu nchi n g movements and

,

the liftings and shi ftings of its forefeet

b ecame more pronounced ; but it would
not com e t o t he man He got on his hands
.

and kn ees and crawled toward the d og .

T hi s unusual posture again excit ed su s

p i ci o n , and the animal S idled mincingly
away .

The man sat up in the snow for a m oment

and struggl ed for calmness Then he pulled .

on hi s mittens by means of hi s te eth and

, ,

got upon hi s feet He glanced down at

.

rst in order to assur e himself that he was

r eally standi ng up for the absence of
,

sensati on i n hi s f eet left him unrelated to

t he earth . His er ect pos i tion i n i tself
starte d t o d r i ve t he webs of suspi cion fr om
 TO B U ILD A FIRE 107

t he dog s mind and wh en he spoke perem p

t ori ly with the sound of whi p lashes in

,
-

hi s voice the d og rendered its customary

,

allegiance and came to hi m As it came .

withi n reaching distanc e the man lost his

,

control His arms ash ed out to the dog

.
,

and he experi enced genuine surprise when

he discover ed th at his hands could not
clutch that there was ne ith er bend nor
,

feeling in the ngers He had forgotten

.

for the moment that they were frozen and

that they were fr ee zing more and more .

All t hi s happened quickly and before t he

,

animal could get away he encircled i t s b ody

,

with hi s arms He sat down in the snow

.
,

and in thi s fashi on held the dog whi le i t ,

snarled and whined and struggled .

But it was all he could d o hold its body ,

encircled in hi s arms and sit there He .

realized that he could not kill the dog .

Ther e was no way to d o it With hi s help

.

less han d s he could ne i ther draw nor hol d

108 TO B UILD A FIRE

hi s sheath knife nor throttle the animal

-
.

H e rel eas ed it and it plung ed wildly away

, ,

with tail between its l egs and still snarli ng, .

It halted forty f eet away and survey ed hi m

curi ously wi th ea rs sharply prick ed forward
, .

The man looked down at hi s hands in order

to locate them and found them hanging on
,

the ends of his a rms It struck him as .

curious that on e shoul d have t o u se hi s eyes

in order to nd ou t wher e hi s hands were .

He b egan threshi ng his arms back and

f orth b eating t he mittened hands agai ns t
,

hi s sides . He di d thi s for ve minutes ,

violently and hi s heart pumped enough

,

blood up to the surface t o put a stop t o his

shivering B u t no sensation was aroused
.

in the hands He had an impression that

they hung lik e weights on the ends of hi s

arms but when he tri ed t o run the impres
,

sion down he coul d not nd it

, .

A certain fear of death dull and ,

oppressive came t o hi m This fear quickly

, .
1 10 TO B UILD A FIRE
And at the same time ther e was anoth er
thought in his mind that said he would nev er
g t o the camp and t he b oys
et that it was
t oo many mil es away that the freezi ng had
,

too great a start on hi m and that he would

,

soon be sti ff and dead This thought he

.

k ept in the background and r efused to

consi der Sometim es it pushed its elf for
.

ward and demanded to b e heard but he ,

thrust it back and strov e t o thi nk of oth er

things .

It struck hi m as curious that he coul d run

at all on f eet s o froz en that he could not

feel them when they struck the earth and

took the w eight of hi s b ody He seemed
.

to hi ms elf t o skim along ab ove the surface

and to hav e no connecti on with t he ea rth .

S omewhere he had once se en a wing ed

Mercury and he wonder ed if Mercury felt
,

as he felt when ski mming ov er the earth .

H i s theory of running until he reached

camp and t he b oys had one aw in i t : he
 TO B U ILD A FIRE 111

lacked the endurance S everal tim es he .

stu mbl ed and nally he tottered crumpl ed

, ,

up and fell When he tried to ri s e he

, .
,

failed He must sit and rest he deci ded

.
, ,

and next time he woul d merely walk and

keep on going As he sat and regained hi s
.

breath he noted that he was feeli ng quite

,

warm and comfortable He was not shi ver .

ing and it even seemed that a warm glow

,

had come to his chest and trunk And yet .

,

when he touched hi s nose or cheeks there ,

was n o sensati on Runni ng would n ot .

thaw them out Nor would it thaw ou t.

hi s hands and feet Then the thought .

cam e t o hi m that the froz en portions of hi s

b ody must be ext endi ng He tri ed t o k eep .

thi s thought down to forget it t o thi nk of

, ,

somethi ng else he was aware of t he pani cky

feeling that it caused and he was afraid of ,

the panic But the thought asserted itself

.
,

and p ersisted until i t produced a vi sion of

,

hi s b ody totally frozen T hi s was t oo .

1 12 T O BUILD A FIRE

much and he made another wild run along

,

t he trail Once he S lowed down to a walk

.
,

but the thought of the freezing extending

itself made hi m run again .

And all the time the d og ran wi th hi m ,

at hi s heels When he fell down a second

.

time it curl ed it s ta i l over its forefeet and

,

sa t in front of hi m facing hi m curiously , ,

eag er and intent The warmth and security

.

of the a ni mal angered hi m and he cursed ,

it till it attened down its ears appeasingly .

T hi s ti m e t he shi vering came mor e qu ickly

upon the man He was losing i n hi s battl e
.

wi th t he frost It was creep ing i nto hi s

.

body from a ll s i des The thought of it .

drove him on but he ran no more than a

,

hundred feet when he staggered and pitched

,

headlong It was hi s last pani c When he

. .

had recovered hi s breath and control he ,

sat up and enterta i ned in hi s mind t he

conc epti on of meeting death wi th di gni ty .

However the concepti on did n ot come to

,
1 14 TO BUILD A FIRE

When he got back to the States he coul d

tell the folk s what real cold was H e .

drifted on fr om thi s to a vi sion of the old

ti mer on S ul phur Creek He could see hi m
.

qui te clearly warm and comfortable and

, ,

smoki ng a pipe .

You were right old hoss ; you w ere

,

ri ght the man mum bl ed to the old3ti m er
,

of Sulphur Creek .

Then the man drowsed off into what

seemed t o hi m the most comfortable and
satisfying sle ep he had ever known The .

dog sat faci ng hi m and waiti ng The bri ef .

day drew t o a clos e i n a long slow twili ght , .

There were n o si gns of a re t o be made and , ,

b esi des never i n the dog s experi ence had

,

it known a man to S it like that i n the snow

and m ak e no re A s the twilight drew on
.
,

its eager yearni ng for the re master ed i t ,

and wi th a great lifting and shifti ng of

f orefeet i t whi ned so ftly then attened i ts
, ,

ears down i n anti ci pati on of being chi dden

 TO BUILD A FIRE 1 15

by the man But the man rema i ned s i lent

. .

L ater the d og whi ned loudly And still

, .

la ter i t crept close t o the man and caught

the scent of death T hi s made t he ani mal
.

bri stle and back away A little longer i t

.

delayed howling under the stars that leaped

,

and danced and shone bri ghtly i n the cold

sk .
y Then it turned and trotted up the
trail in the direction of the camp i t knew ,

where were the other food provi ders and

-

r e provi ders
-
.
 THAT SP O T

D O N T thi nk much of Stephen M ackaye

any m ore though I used to swear

,

by him I know that i n those days I loved

.

him more than my own brother I f ever .

I meet Stephen M ackaye again I shall not

,

be responsible for my acti ons It passes

.

beyond me that a man wi th whom I shared

fo od and blanket and wi th whom I mushed
,

over the Chi lcoot Trail should turn out

,

the way he di d I always si z ed Steve up

.

as a square man a ki ndly comrade wi thout

, ,

an i ota of anythi ng vindi cti ve or mali cious

i n hi s nature I shall never trust my
.

judgment in men again Why I nursed.

,

that man through typhoid fever we starved

together on the headwaters of the Stewart ;
and he saved my li fe on the L i ttle Salmon .

119
12 0 THAT SP O T
And now after the years we w ere together
, ,

all I can say of St ephen Mackay e is that he

is the meanest man I ever knew .

We started for t he Klondi k e in the fall

rush of 1 897 and we started too late to get
,

over Chilcoot Pass before the fr eeze up -

.

We packed our outt on our backs part

way over when the snow began to y and
, ,

then we had to buy dogs in order to sled it

the rest of the way That was how we cam e
.

t o get that Spot D ogs were high and we

.
,

paid one hundred and ten dollars for hi m .

He looked worth it I say looked because .

,

he was one of the nest appearing dogs I -

ever saw He weighed sixty pounds and

.
,

he had all the li nes of a good sled a ni mal .

We never could make out his breed He .

wasn t husky nor Malemute nor Hudson

, ,

Bay ; he looked like all of the m and he

'

di dn t look li ke any of them ; and on t op
of it all he had some of the whi te man s dog

in hi m for on one s i de i n the thi ck of the

, ,
122 THAT SP O T
There are times when I thi nk i t wasn t

stupidi ty Maybe like some men I know

.
, ,

he was too wise to work I shouldn t .

wonder i f he put i t all over us wi th that

i ntelli gence of hi s Maybe he gured i t all
.

out and decided that a licking now and

again and no work was a whole lot better
than work all the ti me and no licking He .

was i ntelli gent enough for such a computa

tion I tell you I ve sat and looked i nto
.
,

that dog s eyes till the shivers ran up and
down my S pi ne and the marrow cr awled li ke
yeast what of the intelli gence I saw shi ni ng
,

out I can t express myself ab out that
.

intelli gence It i s beyond mere words

. .

I saw it that s all At ti mes i t was lik e
, .

ga zi ng i nto a hu man soul to look i nto his ,

eyes ; and what I saw there fri ghtened me

and started all sorts of i deas in my own m i nd
of reincarnati on and all the rest I tell .

you I sensed somethi ng big in that brute s

eyes ; there was a message there but ,

 THAT SP O T 123

I wasn t b i g enough myself t o catch i t

.

Whatever i t was ( I know I m maki ng a fool
of myself) whatever it was i t baffled me , .

I can t give an i nkling of what I saw i n

that brute s eyes i t wasn t light it wasn t ,

colour ; it was somethi ng that moved ,

away back when the eyes themselves ,

weren t movi ng And I guess I di dn t see

.

i t move e i ther ; I only sensed that i t

,

m oved I t was an expression that s what

.
,

i t was and I got an impression of it No

, .

i t was diff erent from a mere expression

i t was more than that I don t know what .

it was but i t gav e me a feeli ng of kinshi p

,

just the same Oh n o not sentim ental .

, ,

kinship It was rather a ki nshi p of

.
, ,

equality Those eyes never pleaded like

.

a deer s eyes They challenged No it

. .
,

wasn t deance It was j ust a calm a ssump

.

tion of equality And I don t thi nk i t was .

deliberate My beli ef i s that i t was uncon

.

sci ous on hi s part It was there be cause .

1 24 THAT SP O T
it was there and i t couldn t help shi ning
,

out N o I don t mean shi n e It didn t

.
,

.

shi ne ; it moved I know I m talki ng rot

.

,

but i f you d looked into that ani mal s eyes

the way I have you d understand Stev e ,

.

was affected the sam e way I was Why I .

,

tried to kill that Spot once he was no good -

for anythi ng and I fell down on it I led .

hi m ou t into the brush and he came along ,

slow and unwilli ng H e knew what was .

going on I stopped in a likely place put

.
,

my foot on the rope and pulled my big ,

Colt s And that dog sat down and looked
.

at me I tell you he di dn t plead He
. .

just looked And I saw all ki nds of i n com

.

prehensible things movi ng yes movi ng in , , ,

those eyes of his I di dn t really see them .

move I thought I saw them for as I sa i d , ,

before I guess I only sensed them And I

, .

want to tell you right now that i t got beyond

me It was li ke ki lli ng a man a consci ous
.
, ,

b rave man who looked calmly i nto you r

,
126 THAT SP O T
wouldn t work He woul dn t even ti ghten

.

the traces Stev e S poke to hi m the rst

.

time we put hi m in harness and he sort of ,

shi vered that was all Not an ounce on

, .

the traces He j ust stood still and wobbled

.
,

like so much j elly Steve touched hi m .

with the whi p He y elped but not an ounce

.
, .

Steve touched him again a bit harder and , ,

he howled the r egular long wolf howl .

Then Steve got mad and gave hi m half a

dozen and I cam e on the run from the t ent
, .

I told St eve he was brutal with the ani mal ,

and we had some words the rst we d ever '

had He thr ew the whip down i n the snow

.

and walked away mad I pi cked i t up .

and went to it That Spot trembled and .

wobbled and cowered b efore ever I swung

t he lash and with the rst bite of i t he
,

howled like a lost soul Next he lay down .

i n the snow I started the rest of the dogs

.
,

and they dragged hi m along whi le I thr ew

the whi p i nto hi m He rolled over on his .
 T HA T SP O T 127

back and bumped along hi s four legs wavi ng

,

i n the a i r hi mself howli ng as though he

,

was goi ng through a sausage machi ne .

Steve cam e back and laughed at me and ,

I apologized for what I d said

.

There was n o getting any work out of

that Spot ; and t o make up for it he was ,

the b i ggest pig glutton of a d og I ever saw

-
.

O n top of that he was the cleverest thi ef

,
.

There was no ci rcumventing hi m Many .

a breakfas t we went wi thout ou r bacon

becaus e Spot had been there rst And it .

was because of hi m that we nearly starved

to death up the Stewart He gured out .

the way t o break into ou r m eat cache and -

what he di dn t eat the rest of t he t eam di d

, .

But he was i mparti al He stole from every

.

body He was a restless d og always very

.
,

busy snooping around or goi ng somewher e .

A nd there was never a camp withi n ve

miles that he didn t rai d The worst of it

.

was that they always came back on us to

128 T HAT SP O T
pay hi s b oard bill whi ch was j ust being , ,

the law of the land but it was mighty hard

on us especially that rst winter on t he
,

Chi lcoot when we were busted paying for

, ,

whole hams and sides of bacon that we

never at e He could ght t oo that Spot
.
, ,
.

He coul d do everythi ng but work He .

never pulled a pound but he was the b oss ,

of the whol e t eam The way he made those

.

dogs stand around was an education He .

bulli ed them and there wa s always one or

,

more of them fresh mark ed wi th hi s fangs -

.

But he was more than a bully He wasn t .

afraid of anything that walked on four

l egs ; an d I v e se en him march single

handed into a strange team without any

, ,

provocation what ever and put the ki bosh ,

on the whole outt Did I say he could .

eat ? I caught him eating the whi p once .

T hat s straight He started in at the lash

.
,

and when I caught hi m he was down t o the

h andle and still goi ng
, .
130 THAT SP O T
our own outt was across the pass freighting ,

other people s outts ; and we mad e a fat

stake Also we made money out of Spot

.
, .

I f we sold him onc e we sold hi m twenty

,

ti mes He always came back and no on e

.
,

asked for th eir money We di dn t want .

the money We d have pa i d handsom ely

.

for any one to take hi m off our hands for

keeps We had t o get r i d of hi m and we
.
,

couldn t giv e hi m away for that would

,

have been suspi ci ous But he was such .

a ne look er that we never had any di fcul ty

in selli ng hi m U nbroke we d say and
.
,

they d pay any old pr i ce for hi m We sold

.

hi m as low as twenty v e dollars and once

-

we got a hundred and fty f or hi m That .

particular party returned him in person ,

re fused to take hi s money back and the way ,

he abused us was somethi ng awful He .

sa i d it was cheap at the pric e to t ell us

what he thought of us and we felt he was
so j ustied that we never talked back .
 THAT SP O T 1 31

But t o thi s day I ve never qui te regai ned

all the old s elf respect that was m i ne before

-

that man talked to me .

When the i ce cleared out of the lakes and

river we put our outt i n a L ake Benn ett
,

boat and started for D awson We had a .

good team of dogs and of course we piled

,

them on top the outt That Spot was .

along there was no losi ng hi m ; and a

dozen ti mes the rst day he knocked one
, ,

or another of the dogs overboard in the

course of ghti ng wi th them It was close .

quarters and he di dn t like being crowded

,

.

What that d og needs is space Steve ,

sa i d the second day Let s maroon hi m
. .

We di d runni ng the b oat i n at Carib ou

,

Crossi ng for hi m t o j ump ashore Two o f .

the other dogs good dogs followed hi m ;

, ,

and we lost two whole days tryi ng to nd

them We never saw those t wo dogs again
.

but the qui etness and reli ef we enj oyed made

us dec i de ,lik e the man who re fused hi s
132 THAT S P O T

hundred and fty that it was chea p at t he

,

pri c e F or the rst ti me in months Steve

.

and I laugh ed and whi stled and sang We .

were as happy as clams The dark days .

were over The ni ghtmare had been lifted

. .

That Spot was gone .

Three we eks later on e morni ng St eve , ,

and I were standi ng on t he river bank at -

Dawson A small boat was j ust arri vi ng

.

from Lak e Benn ett I saw S tev e give a .

start and heard hi m say somethi ng that

,

wa s not nic e and that was not under hi s

b r eath . Th en I looked ; and th ere in ,

the b ow of t he boat with ears prick ed up , ,

sat Spot St eve and I sneak ed imm edi ately

.
,

like b eaten curs lik e cowards like ab

, ,

scon d ers from j us ti c e It was thi s last .

that the li eutenant of poli ce thought when

he saw us sneaki ng He surm i sed that th ere
.

were law offi cers in the boat who were after

-

us H e di dn t wait t o nd ou t but kept

.

us i n si ght and i n the M

, M saloon got . .
1 34 THAT SP O T
the rst landi ng and trotted back up t he

bank We couldn t sell hi m we couldn t
.
,

kill hi m ( b oth Steve and I had tri ed) and ,

nob ody else was able to kill hi m He bore .

a charmed life I ve seen him go down
.

in a dog ght on the main street wi th fty

-

dogs on top of him and when they were ,

s eparated he d appear on all hi s four legs

,

unharmed while two of the dogs that had

,

been on t op of hi m would be lyi ng dead .

I saw him steal a chunk of moo se meat -

from Maj or Dinwi ddi e s cache so heavy that

he could just keep on e j ump ahead of Mrs .

Dinwiddie s S quaw cook who was a fter hi m

wi th an axe As he w ent up the bi ll after

.
,

the S quaw gave up M aj or Dinwi d di e him,

self came out and pumped hi s Winchester

into the landscape He emptied hi s maga.

zi ne twi ce and never touched that Spot

, .

Then a policeman came along and arr ested

him for discharging rearms inside the city
li m i ts Ma j or D i nwi ddi e pa i d hi s ne
.
,
 THAT SP O T 135

and Steve and I paid hi m for the moose

meat at the rate of a dollar a pound b ones ,

and all That was what he paid for i t

. .

M eat was hi gh that year .

I am only t elling what I saw with my own

eyes And now I ll tell you somethi ng
.

also I saw that Spot fall through a

.

water hole The ice was three and a half

-
.

feet thi ck and the current sucked hi m

,

under l ike a straw Three hundred yards

.

below was the big water hole used by th e -

hospital Spot crawled out of the hospital

.

water hole licked off the water bit out the

-

, ,

ice that had formed b etween hi s toes ,

trotted up the b ank and whi pped a big ,

N ewfoundland belonging t o the Gold Com

missioner .

I n the fall of 1 898 Steve and I poled up

,

the Yukon on the last water b ound for ,

Stewart Riv er We took the dogs along

.
,

all exc ept Spot We gured we d been
.

feedi ng hi m long enough He d cost us .
1 36 THAT SP O T
more time and troubl e and money and grub
than we d got by selli ng him on the Chi lcoot

esp ecially grub S o Steve and I tied .

hi m down in the cabin and p ull ed our freight .

We camp ed that night at the mouth of

Indian River and Steve and I were pretty
,

facetious over havi ng shaken hi m Stev e .

was a funny cuss and I was j ust sitting up,

in the blank ets and laughi ng when a tornado

hit camp The way that Spot walked into
.

those dogs and gave th em what for was -

hair r aising N ow how did he get loose ?

-
.

It s up to you I haven t any theory

. .

And how did he get across the Klondik e

River ? That s another facer And any .

way how did he know we had gone up the

,

Yukon ? You see we went by wat er and , ,

he couldn t smell our tracks Stev e and .

I began to get superstitious ab out that d og .

He got on our nerves too ; and b etween , ,

you and me we were j ust a mite afraid of

,
1 38 THAT SP O T
Talk ab out magic and turni ng bullets aside
-
I f or one consider it a blamed sight
, ,

harder to turn an axe as i de wi th a big buck

at the other end of it And I saw hi m do .

it wi th my own eyes That buck di dn t .

want to kill his own dog You ve got to .

S how me .

I told you ab out Spot breaking into our

meat cache It was nearly the death of
.

us There wasn t any more meat to be
.

killed and m eat was all we had to live on

, .

The moose had gone b ack several hundred

miles and the Indi ans w i th them There .

we were Spring was on and we had to

.
,

wait for the river t o break We got pretty .

thi n before we decided to eat the dogs and ,

we deci ded to eat Spot rst D o you know .

what that dog did ? H e sneaked Now .

how di d he know our minds were made up

to eat him ? We sat up nights lay ing f or
hi m but he never came b ack and we ate
, ,

the other d ogs We ate the whole team

. .
 THAT SP O T 139

And now for the sequel You know what .

i t i s when a big r iver breaks up and a f ew

b illion tons of ice go ou t j amm ing and ,

m ill ing and grinding Just in the thick of .

i t when the Stewart went ou t rum b ling

, ,

and roaring we sighted Spot ou t in the

,

mi ddle He d got caught as he was trying

.

to cross up ab ove somewhere Steve and .

I yelled and shouted and ran up and down

the b ank tossing our hats i n the air
, .

Sometimes we d stop and hug e ach other ,

we were that boisterous for we saw Spot s ,

nish He di dn t have a chance i n a mil
.

lion He didn t have any chance at all
. .

A f ter the i ce run we got i nto a canoe and

-

paddl ed down t o the Yukon and down the ,

Yukon to D awson stopping to feed up for a ,

week at the cabins at the mouth of Hender

son Creek A nd as we came in t o the b ank
.

at D awson th ere sat that Spot waiti ng for

, ,

us his ears pricked up his tail wagging hi s

, , ,

mouth s mili ng extendi ng a hearty welcome

,
140 THAT SP O T
to us Now how did he get out o f that ice
.

How did he know we were coming to D aw

son to the very hour and minute t o b e
, ,

out there on the bank waitin g for us

The more I thi nk o f that Spot the more I ,

am convinced that there are things i n this

world that go beyond scienc e On no .

scientic grounds can that Spot be explain ed .

It s psychic ph enomena or mysticism or , ,

something of that sort I guess with a lot , ,

of Theosophy thrown in The Klondi k e .

is a good country I might have be en .

there yet and b ecome a millionair e if i t

, ,

hadn t been for Spot H e got on my nerves . .

I stood him for two y ears altog ether and ,

then I guess my stamina brok e It was .

the summ er of 1 899 when I pulled out I .

didn t s ay anythi ng to Stev e I j ust .

sneaked But I x ed it up all right I

. .

wrote Steve a note and enclosed a packag e

,

o f rough ou rats t elling hi m what t o do
- -
,

Wi th it I was wo rn d o wn to sk i n an d bon e
.
142 THAT SP O T
gate post and holding up the milkman
-
.

Stev e went north t o S eattle I learned that , ,

very morning I didn t put on an y more.

w eight M y wife made me buy hi m a collar

.

and tag and withi n an hour he showed hi s

,

gratitude by k illi n g her pet Per sian cat .

There is no getting rid o f that Spot He .

will b e with me until I di e for h e ll nev er ,

die M y appetite i s not so good since he

.

arrived and my wife says I am lookin g

,

p eaked L ast night that Spot got into

.

M r Harvey s hen house ( Harvey i s my next

.

-

door neighbour ) and k ill ed ni neteen o f his

f ancy bred chick ens I shall have to pay
-
.

f or them M y n eighbours on the other

.

sid e quarrelled with my wife and then

moved out Spot was the cause o f it And
. .

that i s why I am disappointed i n Stephen

M ackaye I had no i dea he was so mean a
.

man .
FLU SH O F G O LD
 1 46 FL USH OF G OLD
camp or to ask hi m hi s intenti ons and yet
he was my man hired at a handsom e wage to
,

mush my dogs for me and to obey my com

mands I gu ess I was a bit grumpy mys elf
. .

H e sai d nothing and I was r esolv ed to a sk

,

nothi ng even if we tramp ed on all night

, .

We came upon t he cabin abruptly For .

a week of trail we had met n o one and in , ,

my mi nd there had been li ttle likelihood of

,

meeting any one f or a w eek to come And .

yet there it was right b efore my eyes a , ,

cab i n with a d i m light in the wi ndow and

,

smoke c ur ling up from the chimney .

Why didn t you tell me I began ,

but was i nterrupted by Lou who mut ,

t ered
Surpri s e Lake it lies up a small f eeder

half a mile on It s onl y a pond .

.

Yes but the cabin who l ives in i t
,

A woman was the answer and the next
, ,

moment Lon had rapp ed on the door and a ,

woman s voice bade him enter .
 FL U SH OF G OLD 1 47

Hav e you s een D ave recently ? she
asked .

Nope Lon a ns wer ed car elessly
,
I ve .

been i n the other directi on down Circle City ,

way D av e s up D awson way ain t he ?
.
,

The woman nodd ed and Lon f ell to u n ,

harnessing the dogs whil e I u nl ashed the ,

sled and carr i ed the camp outt into the

cab i n The cab i n was a larg e on e room
.
,
-

affair and the woman was evid ently alon e

,

in it She point ed to the stove where

.
,

water was alr eady boili ng and Lon set about ,

the preparati on o f supper while I opened ,

the s h bag and f ed the dogs

-
I looked .

for Lon to i ntroduce us and was vexed ,

that he di d n ot for they were evi dently

,

old friends .

You are Lon McF an e aren t you

I ,

h eard her ask him Why I remember .

,

you now The last ti me I saw you it

.

was on a steamboat was n t it I re ,

member .
14 8 FLUSH O F GOLD

Her speech seemed suddenly to be fr o z en

by the spectacle of dread whi ch I kn ew , ,

from the terror I saw mounti ng i n her

eyes must be on her i nn er vi sion To my
, .

astoni shm ent Lon was affected by her words

,

and manner H i s face showed desp erat e

.
,

for all hi s voice sounded hearty and geni al ,

as he sa i d
The last ti me we met was at D awson ,

Q ueen s Jubilee or Birthday or somethi ng

, ,

don t

you remember the canoe races -

i n the r iver and the obstacle races down the

,

ma i n street ?
The terror faded ou t of her eyes and her
whole b ody relaxed Oh yes I do .
, ,

remember she sa id , And you won on e .

of the canoe races .

How s Dave been maki n it lat ely

Striki n i t as rich as ever I suppose ?

,

L on ask ed wi th apparent irrelevance

, .

She sm iled and nodded and th en noti cing , ,

that I had u nl ashed the bed roll she indi ,

1 50 FL USH OF G OLD
characterize that intangible and occul t
somethi ng that I cannot say was a radi ance
or a li ght any more than I can say it was an
expression .

Abruptly as if for the rst ti me she b e

, ,

came awar e of my presence .

H ave you seen D ave recently ? she

asked me I t was on the tip of my tongue
.

to say D ave who ? when L on coughed

i n the smoke that arose from the si z zling
bacon The b acon might have caused that
.

cough but I took i t as a hi nt and left my

,

question unasked N o I haven t I.
, ,

answered I m new i n thi s part of the

.

country
But you don t mean to say she inter
,

ru pt ed , that you ve never heard of D ave

-
oi Big Dave Walsh

Y ou see I apologi z ed
, I m new in ,

the country I ve put in most of my time

.

i n the Lower Country down Nome way , .

Tell hi m about Dave she said to L on , .
 FL U SH OF G O LD 1 51

Lon seemed put ou t but he began i n that ,

hearty geni al manner that I had noti ced

,

b efore It seemed a S hade t oo hearty and

.

geni al and it irritated me

, .

Oh Dav e i s a ne man he said

, , .

He s a man every inch of hi m and he
, ,

stands six feet four in hi s socks His word .

is as good as hi s bond The man lies who .

ever sa ys D ave told a lie and that man wi ll ,

have to ght wi th me too as well i i there s

, ,

anything left of hi m when D ave gets done

with hi m F or Dave is a ghter Oh yes
. .
, ,

he s a scrapper from way back He got a .

grizzly with a 38 popgun He got clawed .

some but he knew what he was doin
, .

He went i nto t he cave on purpose to get

that gri zzly Fraid of nothi ng Free an
.

.

easy with hi s money or hi s last shi rt an

,

match when out o f money Why he .

,

drained Surprise Lake here i n thr ee weeks

an took out ni nety thousand di dn t he ,

She flushe d and nodd ed her head proudly .

1 52 FL USH OF G O LD
Through hi s reci tal she had followed every

word with keenest interest An I must .

say, Lon went on that I was di sap

,

pointed sore on not meeti ng D ave here to

night .

L on served supper at one end of the table

of whi p sawed spruc e and we fell to eating
-

, .

A howling of the dogs took the woman to

the door She Op ened it an inch and
.

li stened .

Where i s Dave Walsh I asked i n an ,

undertone D ead Lon answered
.
, In .

hell maybe I don t know Shut up
, . . .

But you j ust sa i d that you expected to

meet hi m here to ni ght I challenged
-
, .

Oh shut up can t you was L on s
, , ,

reply in the same cauti ous undertone

, .

The woman had closed the door a nd was .

returni ng and I sat and meditated upon the

,

f act that thi s man who told me to shut up

rece ived from me a salary of two hun dr ed
and fty dollars a month and hi s b oard .
1 54 FL USH OF G OLD
e y es and was off a demur e little heavy
, ,

br eathing rising onthe air Lon n ev er snor ed . .

And in the morni ng it was quick break

fa st feed the dogs load the sled and hi t
f , ,

t he trail We said good bye as we pulled

.
-

ou t and the woman stood in the doorway

,

and watched us off I carried the vi sion .

of her unearthl y beauty away with m e ,

j ust under my eyelids and all I had to ,

do any time was to close them and see her

, ,

again The way was unb roken Surprise

.
,

Lake b eing far off the travelled trails and ,

Lou and I took turn ab out at b eating down

the feath ery snow with ou r big webbed ,

shoes so that the dogs coul d travel But .

you said you expected to meet Dave Walsh

at the cabin trembled on the ti p of my
,

tongue a score of times I di d not utter it . .

I coul d wait until we knocked off in the

middl e of the day And when the middl e .

of the day ca me we went right on for as

, , ,

L on explained there was a camp of moose

,
 FLUSH OF G O LD 1 55

hunters at the forks of the Teclee and we ,

could make th er e by dark But we di dn t .

make there by dark for Bright the l ead

, ,

dog broke hi s shoul d er blad e and we lost

,
-
,

an hour over hi m before we shot him Then .

,

cross i ng a timber j am on the frozen b ed of

the Teelee the sled suff er ed a wrenchi ng
,

capsize and it was a case of mak e camp

,

and repai r the runner I cooked supper .

and fed the dogs whi le Lon made the repairs ,

and together we got in the ni ght s supply

of i ce and rewood Then we sat on ou r

.

bla nk ets our moccasins steaming on u p

,

ended sti cks b efore the re and had our ,

evening smoke .

You di dn t know her ? Lon queri ed

suddenl y I shook my head

. .

You noticed the colour o f her ha ir and

eyes and her complexi on well that s where , ,

she got her name s he was like the rst

warm glow of a gold en sunris e She was .

called Flush of Gold Ever heard of her

.
156 FL USH OF G O LD
Somewhere I had a confus ed and misty
remembrance of having heard the name ,

yet it m eant nothing to me Flush o f .

Gold I r epeated
, soun ds l ike the name
of a dance house girl
-
Lon shook his he ad
. .

No she was a good woman at l east in

, ,

that se ns e though she sinned greatly j ust

,

the sam e .

But why do you speak always of her in

the past tens e as though she w ere d ead
,

Because of the darkness on her soul that

is the same as the darkn ess of death The .

Flush of Gold that I knew that D awson ,

knew and that Forty M ile knew before

,

that i s dead That dumb lunatic creature

,
.
,

we saw l ast ni ght was not Flush of Gold .

A nd D ave I queried .

He built that cabin Lon ans wered , .

He built it f or her and f or hims elf .

He i s dead She is wa iting for hi m there

. .

She half b elieves he i s not dead But who .

can know the whim o f a cra z ed mind

1 58 FL USH OF G O LD
mack strik e The old town sit e of Ten .

Mil e was Cha uv et s He carried the r st

.

mail into Arctic City He staked thos e .

coal mines on the Porcupine a doz en years

- -

ago He grubstak ed Lo ftus into the

.

Nippenn uck Country Now it happened .

that Victor Chauv et was a good Catholic ,

lovi ng two thi ngs in thi s world wine and ,

woman Win e of all kinds he lov ed but

.
,

o f woman only on e and she was the, ,

moth er of M arie Chauvet .

Her e I groan ed aloud having meditat ed ,

b eyond s elf control over the fact that I -

paid this man t wo hundred and fty dollars

a month .

he d e

What s the matter n ow
ma n d ed .

Matt er ? I complai ned I thought .

you w ere telli ng the story o f Flush of G old .

I don t want a b i ography o f your old French

wine bibber -
.

Lon calmly l ighted hi s pipe took on e good ,

 FL USH OF G O LD 1 59

puff th en put the p ip e asid e

,
And you .

asked me to begin at the b eginni ng he ,

said
.

Y es
,
said I t he b eginning .

And the beginning of Flush of Gold is

the old Fr ench wine bibber for he was the
-

father of Marie Chauv et and Marie Chauv et,

was the Flush o f Gold What mor e d o you

.

want Vict or Chauv et never had much

luck t o speak of He manag ed t o liv e and
.
,

to get along and to tak e good care of Mari e

, ,

who resembled the on e woman he had lov ed .

He took very good car e of her Flus h of .

G old was t he pet nam e he gav e her Flush .

o f G old Creek was named after her Flush of

Gold town site t oo The old man was great

, .

o n to wn sites only he never landed them

,
.

N ow honestly Lon said with on e of

, , ,

hi s lightni ng changes you ve seen her

, ,

what do you think of her of her looks I ,

mean ? How does she strik e your beauty

sense
 F L US H O F GOL D

She i s remarkably b eautiful I said , .

I never saw anything l ike her in my life .

In spite o f the fact last night that I gues sed

, ,

sh e wa s mad I coul d not keep my eyes off

,

o f her It w asn t curiosity It was wond er
. .
,

sheer wonder she was so stra ngelyb eau tiful
, .

She was more strangely beauti ful before

the darkness f ell upon her Lon said softly , .

She was trul y the Flush of Gold She .

turn ed all men s hearts and heads .

She recalls with an effort that I once won

, ,

a canoe race at D awsonI who once loved ,

her and was told by her of her love for me

, .

I t was her b eauty that made all men lov e

her She d a got the apple fr om Paris on
.

application and there woul dn t hav e been

,

any Troj an War and t o top it off S he d have

,

thrown Paris down And n ow she lives .

i n darkness and she who was always ckle

, ,

f or the rst tim e is constant and cons tant

to a shade to a de ad man she does n ot
,

reali ze is dead .
1 62 FL USH OF G O L D
could k ill the strongest man i n the country
with hard work He co ul d ou tpack a Chilcat
.

Ind i an he could ou tpadd le a Stick and he

, ,

could travel all day wi th wet f eet when the

thermome ter registered fty below zero and ,

that s go ing some I tell you for vitality

, ,
.

You d freez e your f eet at twenty v e b elow

-

if you wet them and tried to ke ep on .

D ave Walsh was a bull for strength .

And yet he was soft and easy natur ed -

.

A nybody co ul d do hi m the latest short ,

horn in camp could lie h i s last dollar out o f

hi m But it do esn t worry me he had a

.
,

way o f laugh ing off hi s softness it doesn t
keep me awake ni gh t s Now don t get
.

the i dea that he had n o b ackbone You .

remember about the bear he went a fter

with the popgun When i t came to ght
.

ing D ave was the blamed est ever He

, .

was the lim it if by that I may describe h i s

,

u nl imi tedness when he got into acti on .

He was easy and k i nd with the weak but ,

 FL USH OF G O LD 1 63

t he strong had t o g ive trai l wh en he went

by And he was a man that men l iked
.
,

which is t he n est word of all a man s man , .

D ave never took part in the big stam

pede to Dawson when Carmack made the
Bonanza strike You s ee Dave was jus t
.
,

then over on M ammon Cr eek strikin it

himself H e di scovered M ammon Creek

. .

Cleaned eighty four thousand up that

-

winter and O p ened up the cla i m so that i t

,

promised a couple of hundred thousand for

the next wi nter Then summer be i n on
.
,

and the ground slos hy he took a trip up ,

the Yuk on to Dawson to see what Carmack s

strike looked like A nd there he saw Flush

.

of Gold I remember the night I shall

. .

always remember It was somethi ng

.

sudden and i t makes one shi ver to thi nk of

,

a strong man wi th all the strength wi thered

ou t of hi m by one glance from the so ft eyes

of a weak blond female creature like

, ,

Flush of G old It was at her dad s cab i n

.

,
1 64 F L US H O F G OLD

old Vi ctor Chauv et s S om e fri end had

.

brought Dav e along to talk ov er town sit es

on Mammon Cr eek But little talking did .

he do and what he did was mostly gibberish

, .

I tell you the sight of Flush of Gold had sent

D ave clean daffy Old Victor Chauv et i h
.

sisted after D av e l eft that he had b een drun k .

And so he had He was drunk but Flush of

.
,

Gold was the strong drink that made hi m so .

That s ettl ed it that rst glimpse he ,

caught of her H e did not start back down

.

the Yukon in a week as he had intended ,

.

He lingered on a m onth two months all , ,

summer And we who had suffered under

.

stood and wondered what the outcome

,

woul d b e Undoubtedly in our minds it

.
, ,

seemed that Flush of Gold had met her

master And why not
. There was ro
mance S prinkl ed all over D ave Walsh .

He was a Mammon King he had made the ,

Mammon Cre ek strik e he was an old sour

dough one of the oldest pioneers i n the land
,
1 66 FLUSH OF G O LD
that the marriage would take place when he
arrived onthe rst steamboat of the next year .

Now Dave was as true as the P ol e
Star and she was as false as a magnetic
,

needle in a cargo of loadstone Dave was .

as steady and solid as she was ckle and

y away and in som e way D av e who n ev er
-
, ,

doubted anyb ody doubt ed her It was

, .

the j ealousy of his love perhaps and maybe

, ,

it was the m essage tick ed off from her soul

to hi s ; but at any rate D ave was worried
by fear of her inconstancy He was a fraid .

to trust her till t he next year he had so ,

to trust her and he was pretty well beside

,

hi ms e lf S ome of it I got from old Victor

.

Chauvet afterwards and from all that I

,

have pieced tog ether I conclude that ther e

was somethi ng of a scene before Dave pulled
north wi th hi s dogs He stood up before
.

the old Frenchman wi th Flush of G old

,

besi de hi m and announced that they wer e

,

p li ghted t o each oth er H e was very.

 FL USH OF G O LD 1 67

dramati c with re i n hi s eyes old Vi ctor

, ,

said He talk ed somethi ng about until

.

death do us part and old Victor especially

remembered that at one place D ave took
her by the shoul d er wi th hi s great paw and
almost shook her as he said Even unto
death a r e you mine and I would ri se fr om
,

the grave to claim you .

Old Victor di s
t i n ctly remembered those words : Even
unto d eath are you m i ne and I would rise
,

from the grave to claim you And he .

told me a fterwards that Flush of Gold

was pretty ba dl y fri ghtened and that he
,

a fterwards took D ave t o one side privately

and told hi m that that wasn t the way to

hold Flush of Gold that he must humour

her and gentle her i f he wanted to keep her .

There is no di scus sion in my mind but

that Flush of Gold was frightened She .

was a savage herself in her treatment of

men whi le men had always treated her as
,

a s oft and ten d er an d t oo utte rly utte r -

1 68 FLUSH OF G O LD
something that must not b e hurt She .

didn t know what harshness was

until
D ave Walsh standi ng his S ix f eet four a
, ,

big bull gripp ed her and pawed her and

,

assur ed her that she was hi s until death ,

and then som e And besides in Dawson .

, ,

that winter was a music play er on e of

,
-

,
-

thos e macaroni eating gr easy t enor Eye -

,
- -

talian dago propositions and Flush of

-

Gold lost her h eart to hi m Maybe it was .

onl y fascination I don t know S ome
.

times it seems t o m e that she r eally di d lov e

D ave Walsh Perhaps it was because he
.

had frightened her with that even unto -

d eath rise fr om the grave stunt of hi s that

,
- - -

she in the end inclined to t he dago music

player B u t it is all gu esswork and the

.
,

facts are sufficient He wasn t a dago ; he .

was a Russian count thi s was straight ;

and he wasn t a professional piano play er -

or anything of t he sort He play ed the .

v ioli n a nd the p iano an d he san g sang ,

1 70 FL USH OF G O LD
see her name down on the passenger list .

She was with t he C ount fellow all the time ,

happy and smiling and I noticed that the ,

Count fellow was down on the li st as havi ng

his wi fe along There it was stateroom
.
, ,

number and all The rst I knew that he

, .

was married onl yI didn t see anythi ng of the

,

wife unl ess Flush of G old was so counted

. . .

I wonder ed if they d got marri ed ashore be

fore starting Th ere d been talk about them
.

in D awson you see and bets had b een laid

, ,

that the Count fellow had cu t D ave out .

I talk ed with the purser He di dn t .

know anythi ng mor e ab out it than I di d ;

he di dn t know F lush of G old anyway and , ,

b esides he was almost rushed to d eath

, .

You know what a Yukon steamb oat is ,

but you can t guess what the Golden Rocket
was when it left D awson that June of 1 898 .

She was a hummer Being the rst stea mer .

ou t she carri ed all the scurvy patients and

,

hos p i tal wrecks Then she must hav e ,

 FL USH OF G O LD 17 1

carri ed a couple of milli ons of Klondike

dust and nuggets to say n othi ng of a packed
'

and j amm ed pass enger li st deck passeng ers ,

galore and bucks and squaws and dogs

,

without end And she was loaded down to

.

the guards with fr eight and baggage There .

was a mountain of the same on the fore

lower deck and each little stop along the
-

way added to it I saw the box come aboard

.

at Teelee Portage and I knew it for what it,

was though I littl e guessed the j oker that

,

was in it And they piled it on top o f

.

ev erything else on the fore lower deck - -

,

and they didn t pile it any too securely
e ither T he mate expect ed to come b ack
.

to it again and then forgot about it I

, .

thought at the time that there was some

thing fam i li ar about the big husky dog that
climb ed over the baggage and freight and
lay down next to the box And then we .

pass ed the Glenda le bound up f or D awson , .

A s she saluted us I thought of D av e on ,

1 72 FL USH OF G O LD
board of her and hurrying to Dawson for
Flush of Gold I turned and look ed at
.

her where She stood by t he rail H er eyes .

wer e bright but she look ed a bit fright ened

,

by the sight of the oth er steamer and she ,

was leaning closely to the Count fellow

as for prot ection She ne edn t have lean ed
.

so safely against him and I needn t have

,

b e en so sur e of a disappoint ed D av e Walsh

arr iving at D awson For D av e Walsh
.

wasn t on t he Glen da le T here wer e a lot

.

of things I didn t know but was soon to ,

know f or instance that the pair wer e not

,

y e t married . Ins id e half an hour pr epara

tions f or the marriag e took pl ace What o f .

the sick men in the main cabin and of the ,

crowd ed cond ition o f the Golden Rocket ,

the likeliest place for the ceremony was

f ound forward on the lower d eck in an
, ,

open space next to the rail and gang plank -

and shaded by the mountain of fr eight with

the b ig b ox on t op and the sle eping dog
174 FL USH OF G O LD
w ent off on a moose hunt to the forks of

the T e clee takin t he Indian along
, .

And thi s i s what happen ed Came on a .

cold snap The j uice went down forty

.
,

fty s ixty b elow zero I rememb er that

,
.

snap I was at Forty M il e and I remember

the very day At eleven o clock i n the .

morni ng the sp irit thermom eter at the

N A T
. . T Company s sto re w ent down
. .

to seventy v e b elow z ero And that morn

-
.

i ng near the forks of the Teelee D ave

, ,

Walsh was out aft er moose w ith that bless ed

Indian o f hi s I got it all from the Indi an
.

a fterward s we m ade a trip ov er the ice

together to Dyea That morning Mr Indi an . .

broke thr ough the ice and wet himself to

the wai st O f course he began t o freeze
.

right away The proper thi ng was to build

.

a r e But D ave Walsh was a bull It

. .

was only half a mile t o camp where a re ,

was al ready burning What was the good .

o f b ui ldi ng another He threw M r I ndi an .

 FLUSH OF G O LD 1 75

over h is shoulder and ran wi th hi m half

a mile wi th the thermometer at seventy
v e below You kn ow what that means
. .

Sui c i de There s no other name for it

.

.

Why that buck Ind i an weighed ov er two

,

hun dred hi mself and D ave ran half a mile

,

wi th hi m Of course he froz e h is lungs

. .

M ust have frozen them near so lid It was .

a tomfool tr ick f or any man to do An d .

anyway a fter lingering horr ibly for several

,

weeks D ave Walsh died

, .

The Ind i an didn t know what to do
wi th the corps e Ordina r ily he d have
.

bur ied him and let i t go at that But he .

knew that D ave Walsh was a b ig man ,

worth lots of money a hi yu skookum chi e f,

-
.

L ikewi se he d seen the bodi es o f other
hi yu s hookurns carted around the country
-

l ike th ey were worth something So he .

dec i ded to take D ave s body to Forty M ile

wh ich was D ave s headquarters You know

.

how the i ce is on the grass roots i n th is

1 76 FL USH OF G OLD
country well the Indian planted D ave ,

und er a foot of soil in short he put D ave ,

on ice D ave co ul d hav e stayed there a

.
.

tho u sand years and still been t he same old

D ave You understand just the same
.

as a r efrigerator Th en the I ndi an brings.

over a whipsaw from the cabin at Surprise

Lake and makes lumber enough for t he
b ox Also waiting for the thaw he go es
.
, ,

out and shoots about t en thousand pounds

of moos e This he ke eps on ice too Came
.
, .

the thaw The Teel ee broke He bui lt a

. .

ra ft and loaded it w ith the meat the big ,

box with D ave insid e and D ave s team of ,

dogs and away they went down the Teclee

, .

The raft got caught on a t imber j am

and hung up two days It was scorc hi ng .

hot weath er and Mr Indi an nearly lost his

, .

moose meat So wh en he got to Teclee .

Portage he gured a steamboat woul d get

to Forty M ile qui cker than his raft He .

transfer r ed his cargo and there you are , ,

1 78 FL USH OF G O LD
crowd ed round the captain of the steam

boat very promi n ent trying to ring in on

, ,

the wine I guess It was a funny wedding

, . .

On the upper d eck the hospital wrecks ,

with var i ous f eet in the grave gath ered ,

and looked down to s ee Ther e were .

Indians all j ammed in the circl e too big , ,

bucks and their squaws and ki ds to say

, ,

nothing of about twenty v e snarlin g wolf -

dogs The missionary lined the t wo of

.

them up and started in with the servi ce .

And jus t then a dog ght started hi gh up

-
,

on the pil e of freight Pee lat lying besid e -

the big box and a whi te haired brute

,
-

belongin g to o n e o f the Indi ans The ght .

wasn t explosive at all The brutes j us t .

snarled at each other from a di stanc e tap

p i ng at e ach other long di stanc e you know -

, ,

saying dast and d assent dast and dassent , .

The no is e was rather disturbing but you ,

could hear the miss i onary s voice above it

.

There was no parti cul arly easy way of

 FL USH OF G O LD 1 79

getting at t he two dogs except from the ,

other sid e of t he pile But nob ody was on

.

that sideev eryb ody watchi ng the c ere

mony you see Even then everythi ng
, .

might have been all right if the captain

hadn t thrown a club at the dogs That

.

was what precipitated everything As I .

say if the captain hadn t thrown that club
, ,

nothi ng might have happen ed .

The missionary had just reached the

point wh ere he was saying I n sickness

and in h ealth and U ntil death do us part
,

.

And j ust then t he captain thr ew the club .

I saw the whole thi ng It landed on Pee .

lat and at that i nstant the whi te brute

,

j umped hi m The club caused it Their

. .

t wo b odi es struck the box and it began ,

t o slid e its lower end tilting down

, It was .

a long oblong b ox and it slid down slowly

,

until it reached the perpendi cular when ,

i t came down on the run The onl ookers .

on that side the circle had ti me to get ou t

1 80 FL U SH OF G O L D
from und er Flush of G old and t heCoun t
.
,

on the opposite side of t he circl e w er e ,

facing the b ox the missionary had hi s back

to it The box must hav e fall en t en feet
.

straight up and down and it hit end on , .

N ow mind you n ot on e of us knew that

,

D ave Walsh was d ead We thought he .

was on t he Glenda le b ound for D awson

,
.

The missionary had edged off to on e sid e ,

and so Flush of Gold fac ed the box when

it struck It was like in a play It
. .

coul dn t have been b ett er plann ed It

.

struck on end and on the right end ; t he

,

whole front of the b ox cam e off and out

sw ept D ave Walsh on hi s f eet pa rtly ,

wrapped in a bla nk et his yellow hair ying

,

and S howing bright i n the sun Right out .

of the box on hi s f eet he swept upon Flush

, ,

of G old She didn t know he was d ead

.
,

but it was unmista kable after hanging up ,

two days on a ti mb er j am that he was rising ,

all right from t he d ead t o claim her Pos .

1 82 FL USH OF G O LD
outlook i s that she ll be faithful to him to

t he end .

Lon McF a n e pulled d o wn the top of the

blank ets and prepar ed to crawl in .

We have her grub haul ed to her each

year he added
, and in g eneral k eep an
,

eye on her Last m ght was the rst ti me

.

she ever recogniz ed me though , .

Who a re the we I ask ed .

Oh was the answer the Count and
, ,

old Victor Chauvet and me D o you know .

,

I thi nk the Count i s the one to be really sorry

for D ave Walsh nev er di d know that she
.

was false to hi m A nd she does n ot suffer

. .

Her darkness i s merci ful to her .

I lay silently under the blankets for the

space of a minute .

I s the Count sti ll in the country ? I

asked .

But there was a gentle soun d of heavy

breathing and I knew Lon MoF a n e was
,

asl eep .
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186 PASSIN G OF MARC US O BR IEN

the water but the river was now growling

,

at t he top of the bank d evouring inst ant , ,

by instant tiny portions of the t op standi ng

,
-

soil Th ese portions w ent into the gaping

.

mouths of t he endless army of brown swirls

and vani shed away Sev eral inches more .
,

and Red Cow would be ooded .

It won t do Arizona Jack said b i tterly
, .

Three days grub ain t enough .

Th ere was Manchester Marcus O B ri en

,

repli ed grav ely He di dn t get any grub
.

.

And th ey found hi s remains grounded

on the Lower River an half eat en by

huskies was Arizona Jack s retort
, And .

hi s ki llin was without provocation J oe .

D eeves never di d nothin never warbled ,

once an j es becaus e hi s stomach was out
,

of order Manchester ups an plugs hi m

,

.

Y ou ain t givin m e a square deal O B ri en

, ,

I tell you that straight Give me a w eek s .

grub and I play ev en to win out Thr ee

, .

days grub an I ca sh in , .
PASSING OF MARCUS O BRIE N
1 87

What for did you ki ll Ferguson ?

O B ri en demanded I haven t any

.

patience for th es e unprovoked ki lli ngs .

And th ey v e got t o stop R ed Cow s none .

so pop ul ous It s a good camp and there
.
,

nev er used to be any killings Now they re .

epidemic I m sorry for you Jack but
.
, ,

you ve got to be made an example of .

Ferguson di dn t provoke enough for a

ki lli ng .

Provok e Ariz ona Jack snorted I .

tell you O B ri en you don t savv e Y ou
,

, .

ain t got no artisti c sensibili ties What for

.

di d I ki ll Ferguson ? What for di d Fer

guson s i ng Then I wi sht I was a little

bird That s what I want to know .

A nswer me that What for di d he sing .

li ttl e b ird li ttle bird One little b i rd

,

was enough I coul d a stood one li ttle .

-

b i rd But no he must sing two little birds

.
, .

I gave m a chanst I went to hi m almighty

.

polite and r equested hi m ki ndly to discard

1 88 PASSIN G OF MAR CUS O BRIEN

one littl e bird I pleaded with hi m Ther e. .

was w i tness es that testied to that .

An F ergus on was no j ay throat ed

-

songster som e on e spoke up from the

,

crowd .

O B ri en betrayed ind ecision

.

Ai n t a man got a right t o hi s artistic

feeli n s ?

Arizona Jack d emanded I .

gave Ferguson warnin It was v i olati n .

my own natur e to go on li st eni n to hi s little

birds Why th er e s music sharps that n e
.
,

strung an k eyed u p th ey d kill for h eaps

-

less n I di d I m willin to pay for hav i n

.

artist ic feeli n s I can tak e my me di cine

.

an lick the spoon but three days grub is

,

drewi n it a shad e n e that s all an I

, ,

hereby re gister my ki ck Go on wi th the .

funeral .

O B ri en was still wav ering He glanced

.

inquiringly at Mucluc Charley .

I should say Judge that three days , ,

g rub was a mite severe the latter su g ,


1 90 PASSIN G OF MARC US O BRIEN
mil es above at the foot of Chilcoot I n
,
.

t he boat wer e a pair of oars and Arizona

Jack s blank ets Leclair e brought the grub

.
,

ti ed up in a our sack and put it on board

,
.

As he di d so he whispered,

I gav e you good measure Jack You ,

.

done it with provocation .

Cast her off Arizona Jack cri ed .

Somebody untied the paint er and thr ew

i t in The curr ent gripped the boat and
.

whi rl ed it away The murderer di d n ot

.

both er with the oars contenting hims elf ,

wi th sitting i n the stern sh eets and rolli ng -

a cigarette Completing it he struck a

.
,

match and light ed up Thos e that watched

.

on the bank coul d s ee the tiny p uffs of smok e .

They remained on the b ank til l the boat

swung out of sight around the bend half a
mile b elow Justic e had b een done
. .

The d enizens of R ed Cow imposed the

law and executed sentences wi thout the
delays that mark the softness of c ivilizati on .
 1 91

PASSING OF MARCUS O BRIEN
Ther e was no law on t he Yukon save what
they made for thems elv es Th ey were
.

comp elled to make it for thems elves It .

was in an early day that Red Cow o ur is hed

on the Yukon 1 887 and the Klondike
and its populous stamp ed es lay in the
unguess ed future The men of R ed Cow
.

di d not even know wheth er th eir camp

was situat ed in Alaska or in the Northwest
Territory whether th ey dr ew br eath und er
,

the stars and stripes or und er the British

ag No surveyor had ever happen ed along

.

to give them their latitude and longitude .

Red Cow was situated som ewh ere along the

Yukon and that wa s suffic i ent for them
, .

So far as ags w ere concerned th ey w ere ,

beyond all j urisdiction So far as the law

.

was concerned they were in No Man s land

,
-

.

Th ey made th eir own law and it was

,

very simple The Yukon executed their

.

dec re es Some two thousand miles below

.

Red Cow the Yukon owed i nto Beri ng

1 92
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PAS SIN G OF MAR CUS O BRIE N

Sea thr ough a delta a hundred miles wi de .

Every mil e of thos e two thousand miles

was savag e wild erness . It was tru e wh ere ,

the Porcupin e ow ed into the Yukon insid e

the Arctic Circle there was a Hudson Bay
Company tra di ng post But that was many
.

hundreds of mil es away Als o it was

.
,

rumoured that many hundreds of miles

farth er on there w ere mi ssions This last
.
,

however wa s m erely rumour ; the men of

,

R ed Cow had n ev er b een th er e Th ey had

.

enter ed t he lo n e land by way of Chi lcoot and

the head waters o f the Yukon
-
.

The men of R ed Cow ignor ed all minor

o ffences To be drunk and disord erly and
.

t o us e vulgar languag e were looked upon as

natural and inalienabl e rights The men.

of R ed Cow wer e individuali s ts and r ecog

,

ni z ed as sacred but two thi ngs property

,

and life There were no wom en present

.

to complicate the ir simple morality Ther e .

were only thr ee log cabins in Red C ow

-
1 94 PASSIN G OF MARCU S O BRIEN

wi n to Bering Sea A few days grub gave

.

hi m a ghting chanc e No grub meant .

pr actically capital punishment though there ,

was a slim chance all depending on the,

s eason of the y ear .

Havi ng disposed of Ar izona Jack and

watc h ed hi m ou t of sight the popul ation ,

turn ed from the bank and went to work on

i ts claims all except Curly J im who ra n ,

the one faro layout in all the Northl and and

who speculated in prospec t holes on the -

sides Two thi ngs happened that day that

.

w ere momentous In the late morning

.

M arcus O B ri en struck it He washed out

.

a dollar a dollar and a half and two dollars

, , ,

from three successiv e pans H e had found .

the streak Curly J im look ed into the

.

hole washed a few pans hi mself and

, ,

o ffer ed O B rien ten thousand dollars for

all ri ghts v e thous and in dust and i n , ,

lieu of the other ve thousand a half int eres t ,

in hi s f aro layout O Bri en refus ed the

.
PASSI NG O F MARCUS O BRIE N
1 95

offer H e was there to make money out

.

o f the earth he declared with heat and not

, ,

ou t of his f ellow men And anyway he

-
.
,

di dn t like f aro Besides he appraised

.
,

h is str ike at a whole lot more than ten

tho us and
.

The second event of moment occurred

in the afternoon when Siskiyou Pearly
,

ran his boat into the bank and ti ed up .

He was fres h from the Outside and had i n ,

his posses sion a four months old newspaper

- -
.

Furthermore he had hal f a dozen barrels

,

o f whi skey , all co ns igned to Cur ly J im .

The men of Red Cow qui t work They .

i
sampled the w skey at a dollar a dr ink
h ,

we ighed ou t on Curly s scales ; and they
discussed the news A nd all wo ul d have
.

been well had not Curly J im conceived a

,

ne far i ous scheme wh ich was namely rst

, , ,

to get M arcus O B ri en drunk and next t o

, ,

buy h is mine from him .

The rst half of the scheme worked

1 96 PASSIN G O F MARCUS O BR IEN

b eautifully It began in the early evening

.
,

and by ni ne o clock O B rien had reac h ed

the s ingin g stage He clun g with one arm

.

aroun d Cur ly J im s neck and even ess ayed ,

the late lam ented F erguson s song about the
l ittle b irds He considered he was qui te
.

safe in this what o f the f act that the only

,

man in camp wi th arti stic f eelings was even

then spe edi ng down the Yukon on the breast
o f a v e mi le c ur rent
-
.

But the sec ond half of the scheme failed

t o connect No matter how much whi sk ey
.

was poured down his neck O B ri en co ul d ,

not b e brought to realize that i t was h is

bounden and fri endl y duty to sell his cla im .

He hesitated it is tru e and trembled n ow

, ,

and again on the verge of giving in Ins ide .

his m uddl ed head however he was , ,

chuckli ng to hims elf He was up to Cur ly .

J im s game and liked the hands that were

be ing dealt h im The w hiskey was good

. .

I t came out o f one spec i al barrel and was ,

1 98 PAS SIN G OF MAR CUS O BRIEN

if it was selling in the other room at a dollar

a dri nk .

I m not lik ely to cons id er O B ri en

,

was hi ccoughi ng to hi s two fri ends in t he

course of explaining t o them t he
ques tion at i ssue Who Me s ell for
.

ten thousand dollars ! No ind eed I ll , .

di g the gold myself an then I m goin ,

down to G od s country S outh ern Cali ,

forni a that s the plac e for me t o end my

d ecli ni n day s ah then I ll start as

I said before th en I ll start , what did

I say I was goin t o start

O strich farm Mucluc Charley vola n

,

t eered .

Sur e j ust what I m goin to start
, .

O B ri en abruptly steadi ed himself and

l ocked with awe at Mucluc Charley H ow

did you know ? Never said so J es .

thought I said so You re a min reader .

Charl ey Le s have anoth er
. .

Curly Jim lled the glasses and had the

PASSIN G OF MAR CUS O BRIEN
1 99

pleasure of seeing f our dollars worth of

whiskey di sappear on e dollar s worth of
,

whi ch be punishe d hi mself O B ri en i n

sist ed that he shoul d drink as frequently

as hi s guests .

B etter take the money now L eclaire ,

argued . Take you t wo years to di g it out

t he hol e an all that ti me you might b e

ha t chi n teeny little baby ostriches an

pulling feath ers ou t the big ones .

O Bri en consider ed the proposition and
nodded approval Curly Jim looked grate
.

full y at Leclaire and relled the glasses .

Hold on there !
spluttered Mucluc
Charley whose tongue was beginni ng to
,

wag loo sely and trip over itself As your

.

father confessor there I go as your

brother O hell !
He paused and col

lect ed hi mself for another sta rt As your

.

fri en
busin ess i ri en I shoul d say I woul d

,
,

sugg est rather I would take the liberty

, ,

as it was t o me nti o n I mea n suggest
, , ,
2 00 PASSIN G OF M ARCUS O BRIEN

that th er e may b e mor e ostrich es

0 h ell ! H e down ed another glass and ,

w ent on more carefully What I m dri vi n

.

at is what am I d riv i n at ? He
smote the side of hi s head sharply half a
dozen tim es with the h eel of hi s palm to
shake up hi s id eas I got it ! he cri ed
.

j ubilantly .Su pposen there s slath ers

more n t en thousand dollars in that hole

O B ri en who apparently was all r eady

to close t he bar gain switch ed ab out , .

Great !

he cried Splen d idea . .

Never thought of it all by mys elf He .

took Mucluc Charl ey warmly by the hand .

Good

G ood fr i en ! s ciat e He
turned bellig erently on Curly Jim May .

b e hundr ed thousand dollars i n that hol e .

Y ou woul dn t rob your old fr i en would

you Curly ? Course you wouldn t I kn ow

,

.

b b

r n yourself your

y ou e t t e et t er n ,

self. L e s have another We re good .

frien s all of us I say all of us

, , , ,
20 2 PAS SIN G OF MARC US O BRIEN

O B ri en

gr ew d esperate He exhausted his
.

last argu ment and sat sp eechle ss He .

look ed pl eadingly at t he friends who had

d es ert ed him H e ki cked Mucluc Charl ey s
.

shi ns und er the tabl e but that graceless

,

h ero imm ediately unfold ed a new and

most logical r eason for the sa le Cur ly .

Jim got pen and ink and paper and wrote

ou t the bill of sa l e O B ri en sa t with pen

.

pois ed in hand .

Le s have one more he pleaded One

, .

more b efore I S ign away a hundr ed thou sa n

dollars.

'
Curly Jim lled the gla sse s tri umphantly .

O B ri en downed hi s drink and bent forward

with wobbling pen to affix hi s signatur e .

Befor e he had made more than a blot he ,

sudde nl y started up impelled by the impact

,

of an idea collidi ng with hi s conscious ness .

He sto od upon hi s feet and swayed back

and forth before them reecting in hi s ,

startl ed e es the thought p rocess tha t was

y
PASSI NG OF MARC US O BRIEN
20 3

taking place behi nd Then he reached hi s .

conclusion A benevol ent radi ance suffused

.

hi s countenance He turned to the faro .

deal er took hi s hand and spoke solemnly

, , .

Curly you re my fri en , There s my

.

han Shak e 0 1 man I won t do it

. .

,

.

Won t sell Won t rob a fri en No son
.

of a gun will ever have chance t o say Ma r

- -

cus O B ri en robbed fri en caus e fric h was

drunk You re drun k Curly an won t
.
, ,

rob you Jes had thought never thought

.

it before don t know what the matter ith

me but never thought it before Suppos e

, .
,

s suppose Curly my 0 1 fri en

j j

s su
e , e p , ,

pose ther e ain t t en thou sa n in whole damn

claim You d be robbed N o sir ; won t

.

.
,

do it M arcus O B ri en makes money ou t

.

of t he groun not ou t of hi s fri en s

, .

Percy L eclair e and Mucluc Charl ey

drowned t he faro dealer s obj ections in

applaus e for s o nobl e a s entiment Th ey .

f ell upon O B ri en from ei ther side th eir

,
20 4 PAS SI NG OF MARC US O BRIEN

arms lovingly about hi s neck th eir mouths

,

so ful l o f words th ey coul d not hear Cu rly s

offer to i ns ert a claus e in t he document to

the effect that if there wer en t ten thousand
i n the claim he woul d b e given back the
differenc e betw een yi eld and purchase
price The longer they talk ed the more
.

maudli n and the more noble the di scussion

b ecam e A ll sordid motives were banish ed
. .

They w ere a trio of philanthropists striving

to save Curly Jim from hi ms elf and hi s own
phi lanthropy They insist ed that he was
.

a phi lanthropist Th ey r efused to acc ept

.

for a moment that there could b e found one

ignoble thought in all t he world They .

crawled and cli mb ed and scrambled over

hi gh ethi cal plat eaux and rang es or drowned
,

thems elves in metaphysical seas of s enti

mentality .

Curly Jim sweated and fu med and poured

out the whi skey H e found hims elf with a
.

S core of arguments on hi s hands not one of,

20 6 PASSI NG O F MARCUS O BRI EN

Oh got it ! Funny how id eas sli p Elusive

,
.

idea chasin elusiv e idea great sport

.

Ever chase rabbits Percy my fri en ? I , ,

had dog great rabbit dog Wha sh is .

name ? D on t know name nev er had no

name forg et name elusive name chasin

elusiv e name n o
idea elusiv e idea but
, ,

got i t what I want t o sa y was O h ell

Th ereafter there was sil ence for a long
time O B ri en slipp ed from their arm s to a
.

sitting posture on the stoop where he sl ept ,

gently Mucluc Charl ey chased the elusive

.

i dea through all the nooks and cranni es of

hi s drowni ng cons ci ousness Leclaire hung
.

fascinated upon the d elayed utterance .

Sudde nl y the oth er s hand smote him on the

back .

Got it Mucluc Charl ey cri ed in s ten

torian tones .

The sh ock of the j olt broke the continui ty

of Lecla i re s mental process .

H ow much t o the pan he demanded .

PASSIN G OF MARC US O BRIEN 20 7

Pan nothi n Mucluc Charley was

angry.

I dea got i t got leg hold ra n -

it down .

Leclaire s face took on a rapt admiri ng

expression and again he hun g upon the

,

oth er s lips .

0 hell ! sa i d M ucluc Charl ey .

At thi s moment the kitchen door opened

for an instant and Curly Ji m shouted
, ,

Go hom e
Funn y sa id Mucluc Charley
, Shame .

i dea very shame as mine Le s go home .

.

Th ey gather ed O B ri en up betwe en them
and started Mucluc Charley began aloud
.

the pursuit of another idea Leclaire fol .

lowed the pursuit with enthusiasm But .

O B ri en di d not follow i t

He neither .

heard nor saw n or knew anythi ng He

, , .

was a mere wobbling automaton supported ,

aff ecti onately and precari ously by hi s two

business associates .

Th ey took the path down by the bank of

20 8 PAS SI NG OF MARC US O BRIE N

the Yukon Home di d not li e that way

.
,

but the elusive idea di d Mucluc Charley .

giggled over the idea that he could not

catch for the edi cati on of Leclaire They .

came t o where Si skiyou P early s b oat lay

moored to the ba nk The rope with whi ch .

i t was ti ed ran across the path to a pine

stump They tripped ov er it and went
.

down O B ri en und erneath A faint ash
, .

of consciousness lighted hi s bra i n H e felt .

the i mpact of bodi es upon hi s and struck out

ma dl y for a moment wi th hi s sts Then .

he went to sleep aga i n His g entl e snor e .

arose on the air and Mucluc Charley b egan

,

to giggl e .

New id ea he volunt eered brand new

, ,

i dea Jes caught it no troubl e at all

.

.

Came right up an I patt ed it on the head .

It s m i ne Brien s drunk bea shly drunk
.

Shame damn shame learn m lesshon

.

Thash P early s boat Put Brien i n Pear

.

ly s boat Casht off let her go down

.
2 10 PASSIN G OF MAR CUS O BRIEN

di dn t come though they sat up till mid
,

ni ght Nor di d he come next day nor

.
,

the n ext R ed Cow never saw Marcus

.

O B ri en again and though m any conj ectures

w er e entertained no certain clue was ev er ,

gain ed to di spel the mystery of his passing .

O nl y Marcus O B ri en knew and he never

came back to tell He a woke next morning .

in torment His stomach had be en calcined

.

by the i nordinate quantity of whi sk ey he

had drunk and was a dry and raging fur
,

nace His head ach ed all over inside and

.
,

ou t and worse than that was the pain in

, ,

hi s fac e For six hours countless thousands

.

of mosqui t oes had fed upon hi m and their ,

ungrateful poison had swollen hi s face

tremendously It was onl y by a sev ere .

ex ertion of will that he was able t o open

narrow slits in hi s face through whi ch he
cou d pe er He happened to move hi s
l
.

hands and they hurt He squinted at

, .
PASSIN G OF MARC US O BRIEN
21 1

them but failed to recogniz e them so

, ,

puffed were they by the mosqui to vi rus .

He was lost or rath er hi s identity was lost

, ,

to hi m There was nothi ng familiar ab out

.

hi m whi ch by associati on of ideas would

, , ,

cause to rise i n hi s consciousness the c on

t in u ity of hi s existence H e was divorced .

utterly from hi s past for there was nothi ng ,

about him to resurrect in hi s consciousness

a memory of that past B esides he was .
,

so s ick and m i serable that he lacked energy

and i nclination to seek after who and what
he was .

It was n ot until he di scovered a crook in

a little nger caused by an uns et breakag e
,

o f yea rs before that he knew hi mself to b e

,

Marcus O B ri en On the i nstant hi s past

.

rushed into hi s consciousness W hen he .

di scovered a blood blister und er a thumb -

nail whi ch he had received the pr evious

,

we ek hi s self i denti cati on became doubly
,

sure and he knew that those unfamili ar

,
2 12 PASS I NG O F MAR CUS O BRIE N

hands b elonged to M arcus O B ri en or j ust

, ,

as much to the point that M arcus O B ri en
,

b elonged to t he hands His rst thought .

was that he was ill that he had had river

fever It hurt him so much to open hi s
.

eyes that he kept them cl osed A small .

oati ng branch struck the b oat a sharp rap .

H e thought it was some on e knocking on

the cab i n door and said Com e in
, He ,

waited for a w hi le and then said tes tily

, ,

Stay ou t th en damn you
, , But j ust .

the same he wish ed they would com e in

and tell hi m about hi s i lln ess .

But as he lay there the past night began

,

t o reconstruct i tself in hi s brain He .

hadn t b een sick at all was hi s thought ;

,

he had mer ely be en dr unk and it was tim e ,

for him t o get up and go t o work Work .

suggested hi s mine and he remembered

,

that he had re fused ten thousand dollars

f or it He sat up abruptly and squeezed
.

open hi s ey es He saw hi mself in a boat

.
,
2 14 PAS SIN G OF MARCUS O BRIEN

had kill ed more than one He reached to .

hi s belt The k ni fe was missing from its

.

sheath He had done it wi th that undoubt

.

edly . But there must have been some

rea son for the ki lli ng He Opened hi s ey es
.

and in a panic began to search about the

b oat There was no grub not an oun ce
.
,

of grub He sat down wi th a groan He

. .

had ki lled without provocation The ex .

treme rigour of the la w had been vi sited

upon him .

F or half an hour he remained motionless ,

holdi ng hi s aching head and trying to

thi nk Then he cooled hi s s t oma ch wi th a
.

drink of water from oversid e and felt

better He stood up and alone on the
.
,

wi de stretchi ng Yuk on wi th naught but

-

the primeval wi lderness to hear he curs ed ,

strong dri nk After that he ti ed up to a

.

huge oating pi ne that was de eper sunk

i n the current than the boat and that
consequently dr ifted faster He wash ed .
 2 15

PASSIN G OF MAR C US O BRIEN
hi s face and hands sat down in the ste m
,

sh eets and di d some more thi nki ng I t

, .

was late i n June It was two thousand

.

miles to Bering Sea The b oat was av erag

.

ing ve miles an hour There was no .

darknes s i n such hi gh latit udes at that

ti me of the year and he could run the
,

ri ver every hour o f the twenty four Thi s -

woul d mean daily a hundred and twenty

, ,

miles Strike ou t the twenty for acci dents

.
,

and there remained a hundred miles a day .

I n twenty days he woul d reach Bering Sea .

And thi s would i nvolve no expendi ture Of

energy ; the r iver di d the work He .

could li e down in the bottom Of the b oat

'

and husba nd hi s strength .

F or two days he ate nothing Then .

,

drifting into the Yuk on Flats he went ,

ashore on the low lying i slands and gathered

-

the eggs of wild gee se and ducks He had .

no matches and ate the eggs raw Th ey

, .

were strong but they kept hi m goi ng

, .
216 PASSIN G OF MAR C US O BRIEN

Wh en he crossed the A rctic Circle he ,

found the Hudson B ay Company s post

.

The brigade had not yet arriv ed from the

Mack enzi e and the post was completely
,

ou t of grub He was Offered wild duck

.
-

eggs but he i nformed them that he had a

,

bushel of the same on t he b oat He was .

also Offered a drink of whi skey whi ch he ,

re fused with an exhibition of vi olent repu g

nanc e He got matches howev er and
.
, ,

a fter that he cooked hi s eggs Toward the .

mouth of the river head winds delayed -

him and he was twenty four days on the

,
-

egg di et Unfortuna t ely whi le asl eep he

.
,

had drifted by b oth the missions of St .

Paul and Holy Cross And he could .

sincerely say as he afterward di d that talk

, ,

ab out missions on t he Yuk on was all hum

bug There w eren t any missions and
.
,

he was the man to know .

Once on Bering S ea he exchanged the

egg di et for seal di et and he never coul d
,
THE WI T O F PORPOR TU K
2 22 THE WI T OF PORPORTU K

E l SO O
-
was a matter of t erms and arrange
,

ment She had a passion f or equity a nd

.
,

p erhaps i t was because of thi s that she

excelled i n mathematics .

But she excelled i n other thi ngs She .

learned t o read and wri te Engli sh as no

girl had ever l earned in the Mi ssion She .

l ed the girls i n singing and i nto song she

,

carried her sense of equi ty She was an .

artist and the r e of her owed toward

,

creation Had she from birth enj oyed a

.

more favourable envi ronment she would ,

have mad e lit erature or music .

I nst ead she was E l Soo daughter of

,
-

K la kee Nah a chi ef and she lived in the

-
, ,

Holy Cross Mi ssion where were n o artists ,

but only pure soul ed Sisters who were

-

interested in cl eanli ness and ri ghteousness

and the w elfar e of the spirit i n the land of
immortality that lay b eyond the ski es .

The years passed She was eight years

.

Old when she entered the Mi ss i on ; She

 THE WI T OF PORPOR TU K 22 3

was sixteen and the Sisters were corre

,

s on di n g with their superiors i n the Order

p
concerning the sending of E l Soo to t he -

U ni t ed Stat es to compl ete her education ,

wh en a man of her own tribe arrived at

Holy Cross and had ta lk with her E l S oo .
-

was som ewhat appalled by him He was .

di rty H e was a Caliban lik e cr eature

.
-

primiti vely ugly wi th a mop of hair that

,

had nev er be en combed H e look ed at her

.

di sapprovingly and refus ed to si t down .

Thy broth er is dead he sa id shortly
, , .

E l Soo was not particularly shocked

-
.

She remembered little of her brother .

Thy fath er i s an old man and alone , ,

the mess eng er went on His house i s

.

larg e and empty and he would h ear thy

,

voice and look upon th ee .

Hi m she remembered K lakee Nah the

- -

head man of the villag e the friend of the

-

missionaries and the traders a larg e man ,

th ew ed lik e a giant with ki ndly ey es and

,
22 4 THE W I T OF PORPOR TUK

masterful ways and stri di ng wi th a con

,

sci ou sn ess of crude royalty in hi s carriage .

Tell hi m that I wi ll come was E l ,

S oo s answer .

Much to the despa i r of the Sisters the ,

brand plucked from t he burni ng went back

to t he burni ng All pleadi n g with E l SO O
.
-

was vain There was much argum ent

.
,

expostulati on and w eeping Sister Albe rta

, .

even revealed to her t he proj ect of sending

her t o t he Uni te d States El S oo star ed
.
-

wide eyed into t he gold en vi sta thus opened

-

up t o her and shook her h ead In her

, .

ey es persisted another vi sta It was t he .

mighty curve of the Yuk on at Tana naw -

Stati on with the St George Mi ssion on

, .

one side and the tradi ng post on the other

, ,

and midway between the Indi an vi llage and

a certa in large log house wh ere lived an
old man t ended upon by slaves .

All dwellers on the Yukon bank for twi ce

a thousand m i les knew the large log hous e ,
226 THE WI T OF PORPOR TU K

hospitality but what of being a chi ef and

, ,

of acqui ring much mon ey he was abl e to ,

do it I n t he primitiv e tradi ng days he

.

had been a power ov er hi s p eopl e and he ,

had d ealt protably with the whi t e tra di ng

compani es Later on with Porportuk he
.
, ,

had mad e a gold strike on t he K oyokuk -

R iver K la kee Nah wa s by training and

.
-

natur e an aristocrat Porportuk was bour .

g i s and Porportu k bought hi m ou t of

eo ,
.

the gold min e Porport u k wa s content to

-
.

plod and accumulate K la kee Nah w ent .

-

back t o hi s large house and proceed ed t o

spend Porportuk was known as the rich est
.

Indi an in Alaska K la kee Nah was known .

-

as the whi test Porpor tu k was a mon ey .

l ender and a usurer K la kee Nah was an .

-

anachroni sm a me di aeval rui n a ghter ,

a n d a feast er happy w i th wine and song

, .

El Soo adapt ed herself t o the larg e house

-

and its ways as r eadi ly as She had adapted

hers elf t o Holy Cross Mission and i t s ways .
 TH E W I T O F PORPOR TU K 2 27

She di d n ot try t o reform her father and

direct hi s footsteps toward God I t is true .
,

she reprov ed hi m when he dra nk overmuch

and profoundl y but that was for the sake

,

of hi s h ealth and the directi on O f hi s foot

steps ou soli d earth .

The latchstring to the large house was

always ou t What wi th the coming and
.

the going i t was never sti ll The rafters

,
.

o f the great li vi ng room S hook wi th the

-

roar Of wassail and of song A t table sat .

men from all the world and chi efs from

di stant tribe s Engli shm en and Coloni als ,

lean Yanke e traders and rotund Ofcials

'

of the great compani es cowboys from the

,

Wes tern ranges sailors from the sea hunters

, ,

and dog mushers of a score Of nati onalities

-
.

E l SO O drew breath i n a cosmopoli tan

-

atmosphere She coul d speak E ngli sh as

.

well as she could her native tongue and ,

she sang English songs and ballads The .

passi ng Indian c eremoni als she knew and ,

228 TH E WI T O F PORPORTUK

the perishi ng traditions The tribal dress

.

of the daughter Of a chi ef she knew how to

wear upon occasion But for the most .

part She dressed as whi te women dress .

Not for nothi ng was her ne edl ework at the

Mission and her i nnat e arti stry She car .

ried her clothes li ke a whi t e woman and ,

she made clothes that could b e s o carri ed .

I n her way she was as unusual as her

father and the position she occupi ed was
,

as uni que as his She was the one Indian

.

woman who was the social equal wi th t he

s ev eral whi t e wom en at Tana naw Statio n
-
.

She was the one Indian woman to whom

whit e men honourably made proposa ls Of
marriage And she was t he one Indi an
.

woman whom no white man ever insult ed .

F or E l SO O was b eauti ful not as whi te
-

women are beautiful not as Indian wom en

,

are beauti ful It was the ame of her

.
,

that di d not depend upon feature that was ,

her beauty S o far as mere li ne and

.
230 TH E WIT OF PORPOR TU K

of thi ngs This she would not permit

. .

The large house and all of whi ch i t was

,

signicant was her father s ; and through
,

i t to the last mov ed hi s heroic gure host

, , ,

master of the r evels and giver of the law , .

It i s true as the strength oozed from hi m

, ,

that she caught up responsibilities from

hi s fai ling hands But in app earance he
.

still rul ed do zing ofttimes at the board a

, , ,

bacchanalian ruin yet in all se eming the ,

rul er of the f east .

And through the large house moved the

gure of Porportu k ominous wi th shaking , ,

head coldly di sapprovi ng paying for it

, ,

all Not that he really paid for lie com

.
,

pound ed interest i n weird ways and year ,

by year ab sorb ed t he prop erties of K lakee

Nah Porportuk once took it upon himself
.

t o chi de E l SO O upon the wast e ful way of

-

life i n the large house i t was when he

had about absorbed the last of K lakee

Nah s wealth but he never ventured so

 THE WI T OF PORPOR TU K 231

to chide again E l Soo lik e her father

.
-

, ,

was an aristocrat as di sdai nful of money

,

as he and with an equal sense of honour

,

as nely strung .

Porp ort uk continued grudgingly t o a d

vanc e money and ever the money owed
,

in golden foam away Upon on e thing .

E l Soo was resolv ed her father should di e

-

as he had li ved There should be for him

.

no passing from hi gh to low n o di minution ,

of t he revels no less ening of the lavish

,

hospi tality When there was famine as

.
,

of O ld t he Indians came groani ng to the

,

large house and went away content Wh en .

there was fam i n e and n o money money was ,

borrow ed from Porportu k and t he Indi ans ,

sti ll w ent away content El Soo might .

-

well have repeated after the aristocrats of

,

anoth er time and plac e that after her came ,

the d eluge I n her case the deluge was

.

old Porportu k With every advanc e of

.

money he looked upon her wi th a more

,
232 THE WIT OF PORPOR TU K

possessive eye and felt bourgeoning within

,

him anci ent r es .

But E l SOO had no eyes for him Nor

-
.

had she ey es for the whi te m en who want ed

to marry her at the Mission with ring and
priest and b ook F or at Tana naw Station
.
-

was a young man Akoon O f her own blood

, , ,

and trib e and vi llag e He was strong and

, .

b eautiful to her eyes a gr eat hunter and

, , ,

in that he had wander ed far and much ,

v ery poor ; he had b een to all the n u

known wast es and places he had j ourn eyed
t o Sitka and to th e U ni ted Stat es ; he had

cross ed the continent t o Hudson Bay and

back again and as seal hunter on a shi p
,
-

he had sail ed to Siberia and for Japan .

Wh en he return ed from the gold strike -

in Klondike he came as was hi s wont to

, ,

the large house t o make report to old

K lakee Nah of all the world that he had
-

s een ; and there he rst saw E l SOO three -

years back f rom the Mi ssion Thereat .

,
2 34 THE WI T OF PORPOR TUK
st eri n g crowd was there and as of Old , , ,

three frost bitten sailors were ther e fr esh

-

from the long traverse from the Arctic ,

survi vors of a ship s company of seventy

four A t K lakee Na b s back w er e four old

.
-

men all that were l eft him of the slaves of

,

hi s youth With rheumy ey es th ey saw

.

to hi s needs with palsi ed hands lling hi s

,

glass or striking hi m on the back b etween

the S hould ers wh en death stirred and he
cough ed and gasped .

It was a wild night and as the hours ,

passed and the fun laughed and roared

along death stirred more r estl essly in
,

K la k ee Na b s throat Then it wa s that

-
.

he s ent for Porpor tu k And Porp ortu k .

cam e in from the outside frost to look wi th

di sapproving eyes upon the meat and wi ne
o n the table for w hi ch he had paid But .

as he look ed down the length of ushed

faces t o the far end and saw the face O f
E l S oo the light in hi s ey es ar ed up
-

, ,
 THE WIT OF PORPOR TUK 235

and for a moment the di sapproval

vani shed .

Place was made for hi m at Klakee Nab s -

side and a glass placed before him Kla

, .

kee Nah with hi s own hands lled the

-

, ,

glass wi th fervent Spirits Drink ! he .

cri ed .I s it not good ?

And Porport uk s eyes watered as he

nodd ed hi s h ead and smacked hi s lips .

When in your own house have you
, ,

had such drink K lakee Nah demanded -

.

I wi ll n ot deny that the dri nk is good

t o thi s O ld throat of m i ne Porpor tuk ,

mad e answer and hesitated for the sp eech

,

to complete the thought .

But it costs ov ermuch K lakee Nah

.

,
-

roar ed completing it for hi m

, .

Porportuk wi nced at the laughter that

went down the table H i s eyes bu rned .

malevolently We were b oys together

.
,

of the same age he said In your throat

, .

is d eath I am sti ll alive and strong
. .
2 36 THE WI T OF PORPOR TU K
An ominous murmur arose from the com
pany K lakee Nah coughed and strangled
.
-

and the old slav es smote him b etween

the shoul d ers He em erged gasping and
.
,

waved hi s hand to still the threatening

rumble .

You have grudged the v ery re in your

house because the wood cost overmuch
he cried Y ou have grudg ed life
. To .

live cost overmuch and you have r efus ed

,

t o pay the price Your life has been like

.

a cabin wh ere the re is ou t and there a re

no blankets on the oor He signall ed .

to a slave t o ll his glass whi ch he h eld ,

aloft . But I have lived And I have .

been warm with life as you have never

be en warm It is tru e you shall live long
.
, .

But the longest nights are the cold nights

when a man shivers and li es awake My .

ni ghts have been short but I have sl ept ,

warm .

He drain ed the glass The shaking hand .

2 38 TH E W I T O F PORPOR TUK
note of two months later for a thousand
dollars Then ther e is the note
.

Never mind the many notes K la kee

Nah cri ed out impatiently . Th ey mak e
my head go around and all the thi ngs i n
sid e my h ead The whol e ! The round
.

whole ! How much i s i t

Porportu k referr ed to hi s memorandum .

Fi fte en thousand nin e hundred and sixty

seven dollars and s ev enty v e c ents he
-

read with careful precision .

Make it sixteen thousand mak e i t six

,

t een thousand K la kee Nah said grandl y
,
-
.

Odd numbers wer e ever a worry And .

now and it i s for thi s that I have sent

for you make me out a new note for six
teen thousand whi ch I shall sign I have
,
.

no thought of the inter est Make it as

.

large as you will and make i t payable in

,

the next world when I shall meet you by

,

the re of the Great Father of all Indi ans .

Then the note will be paid Thi s I pr o

.
 THE WI T OF PORPOR TU K 2 39

mis e you . It i s the word of K lakee

Nah .

Porportuk look ed perpl ex ed and loudly ,

t he laught er aros e and shook t he room .

K la kee Nah raised hi s hands Nay he

-
.
,

cried It i s not a j oke I but speak in

. .

fairness It was for thi s I sent for you

.
,

Porport uk Make ou t the note

. .

I have no deali ngs with the n ext
world Porportuk made answ er slowly
, .

Have you n o thought to m eet me b efor e

the Great Father Klak ee Nah de -

m a nd ed Then he added I shall sur ely ,

be th er e .

I have n o dealings with the next

world Porportuk rep eated sourly
, .

The dying man regard ed hi m with frank

amazement .

I know naught of the next world Por ,

ortuk explained I do business in thi s

p .

world .

K la kee Nab s face cl eared

-
Thi s com es .
240 TH E WI T OF POR PORTUK

of sl eeping cold of nights he laugh ed He

, .

pond er ed for a space then said , It ,

is in t hi s world that you must be paid .

There remains to me thi s house Take .

it and burn the debt in the candl e

,

there .

It is an Old house and not worth the

money Porpor tuk made answer
, .

There are my mines on the Twisted

Salmon .

Th ey have never paid to work was ,

the reply .

There i s my share in t he s team er K oyo

ku k I am ha lf owner .

She is at the b ottom of the Yukon .

K la kee Nah sta rted

-
True I forgot
.
, .

It was last spring when the ice went out .

He mused for a tim e while the glasses re

,

mained untasted and all the company

,

waited upon hi s utteranc e .

Then it woul d seem I owe you a sum

of money whi ch I cannot pay in thi s
242 THE WI T O F PORPOR TU K

th e moth er of E l SO O ! Ho ! ho ! ho !
-

H e began to cough and strangl e and the ,

old slav es smote him on the b a ck Ho ! .

ho ! he began again and w ent O ff into
,

anoth er paroxysm .

Porport u k waited pati ently sipping from ,

hi s glass and studying the doubl e row of

faces down t he board It is no j ok e
.
,

he said nally My sp eech i s well

.

meant .

K lak ee Nah sob er ed and look e d at hi m

-

th en reach ed for hi s glass but coul d n ot ,

touch it A slave pass ed it t o hi m and

.
,

glass and li quor he un g into the fac e of

Porpor tu k .

Turn hi m
ou t ! K lak ee Nah thun -

dered to the waiting table that strain ed lik e

a pack of hounds in l eash And roll hi m
.

i n t he snow
As the mad riot swept past hi m and ou t
of doors he signall ed to the slaves and the
, ,

f our totteri ng old men supported hi m on

 THE WIT OF PORPOR TU K 24 3

hi s feet as he met t he r etirrni n g revell ers ,

upright glass in hand pledging th em a

, ,

toast to the short ni ght wh en a man sleeps

warm .

It di d not take long t o s ettl e the estate

of Kla kee Nah -
Tommy t he little Eng
.
,

lishman cl erk at the tra di ng post was

, ,

called in by E l SO O to h elp There was

-
.

nothing but debts not es overdu e mort

, ,

gag ed properti es and prop erties mortgaged

,

but worthl ess Not es and mortgages were

.

h eld by Porportuk Tommy called hi m a

.

robb er many times as he pondered the

compounding of the inter est .

I s it a debt Tommy
,
El Soo asked -
.

It is a robb ery Tommy answered
,
.

N ev erthel ess i t i s a debt she per
, ,

s i sted.

The winter wore away and the early ,

spri ng and still the clai ms of Porport uk

,

r emained unpaid He saw El Soo often

.
-

and explained t o her at l ength as he had ,

244 THE WIT O F PORPOR TU K

explained to her fath er the way the d ebt ,

could b e canc ell ed Also he brought wi th

.
,

him old medicine men who elaborated to

-

, !

her t he ev erlasting damnation of her father

if t he debt w er e not paid O ne day after .
,

such an elaboration E lS oo made nal,

announc ement to Porportu k .

I shall tell you two thi ngs she sa i d , .

First I shall not be your wife Will you

, .

rem emb er that ? S econd you shall b e ,

paid the last c ent Of the sixteen thousand

dollars
Fift een thousand ni ne hundred and
sixty seven dollars and sev enty v e cents
- -

Porpor tuk corrected .

My father sa id sixteen thousand was ,

her r eply Y ou shall be paid
. .

How
I know not how but I shall nd ou t
,

how Now go and bother me n o more

.
,
.

I f you d o she hesitated to nd tting

penalty i f you do I shall have you ,

 THE WI T OF PORPOR TU K

j ourneyed all the way up from Holy

on t he rst st eam er and to no b etter
,

My father wanders in the thi ck and

endless for ests said E l S oo
,
-
And ther e
.

will he wander with the lost souls crying

, ,

till the d ebt b e paid Then and not until

.
,

th en may he go on t o the hous e of the

,

Great Fath er .

And you believe thi s Sister Alberta

asked .

I do not know El S oo made answer

-
.

I t was my father s b eli ef .

Sister Alberta shrugg ed her shoul ders

i ncr edulously .

Who knows but that the thi ngs we b e

li eve com e true E lS oo went on Why .

n ot ? The n ext world to you may be

h eav en and harps b ecause you have
beli eved heav en and harps ; to my fath er
t h e n ext world may b e a larg e hous e wh er e

he will sit always at table fea sti ngwi th God .
 THE WI T OF PORPORTUK 2 47

And you ? Sist er Alb erta ask ed .

What is your next world

E l SOO hesitated but for a mom ent
-
I .

should like a little of both she said I , .

shoul d lik e to see your face as w ell as the

face of my father .

The day of the auction came Tana naw .

-

Station was popul ous As was their cus .

tom the trib es had gath er ed t o await t he

,

salmon run and i n the m eantime sp ent the

-

time in dancing and frolicking tra di ng and ,

gossiping Then there was the ordi nary

.

sprinkling of whi te adv enturers traders , ,

and prospectors and in addition a large

, , ,

number of whi te men who had com e b e

caus e Oi curiosity or interest in t he affair .

It had b een a backward spring and the ,

sa lmon w ere late in runni ng Thi s d elay .

but k ey ed up the i nterest Th en on the .

,

day of the auction t he situation was mad e

,

t ens e by Akoon H e aros e and mad e public

.

and solemn announc em ent that whoso ever

24 8 THE WIT OF PORPOR TU K
bought E l SO O woul d forthwi th and imm e
-

di ately di e H e ourished t he Winch est er

.

in hi s hand to indi cat e t he manner Of the

taking off E l Soo was ang ered ther eat ; but
-
.
-

he r efus ed to speak with her and w ent to ,

t he tra di ng post to lay in extra ammu ni tion .

The rst salmon was caught at t en O clock

i n the ev eni ng and at midnight t he auc

,

ti on b egan It took plac e on top of the

.

high bank alongsid e t he Yukon The sun .

was due north j ust b elow the horizon and ,

t he sky was lurid red A gr eat crowd .

gath er ed about the table and the two

chairs that stood n ear t he edg e of the ba n k .

To the fore were many whit e men and

several chi efs And most promi nently to
.

the fore ri e in hand stood Akoon

, , .

Tommy at E l S oo s requ est served as

,
-

auctioneer but she made the op eni ng

,

speech and d escribed the goods ab out to

be sold She was in native costum e in
.
,

the dr ess of a chi ef s dau ghter s p l endi d an d

,
2 50 THE WIT OF POR POR TU K

She looked over t he crowd with aming

audacity and st epped down At Tommy s .

r equest she stood upon the chair again ,

whi l e he mount ed t he s econd chair and

started t he bid di ng .

Surrounding E l S oo stood the four old

- -

slav es of her fath er Th ey w er e age .

twisted and palsi ed faithful to their meat

, ,

a g eneration out of t he past that watched

unm ov ed t he antics of younger life In .

the front of t he crowd w er e s ev eral Eld or

a d o and Bonanza kings from t he Upp er

Yuk on and b eside th em on crutch es

, , ,

swoll en wi th scurvy were two brok en

,

prospectors From the midst O f the crowd

.
,

thrust out by its own vividn ess appear ed ,

the face of a wild ey ed S quaw from the

-

r emot e regions of the Upp er Tana h aw ; a -

strayed Sitkan from the coast stood sid e

by sid e with a Stick from Lake Le Barg e ,

and beyond a half doz en Fr ench Canadi an

, ,
- -

voyag eurs grouped by th emselv es From

,
.
 THE WI T OF PORPOR TU K 2 51

afar came the faint cri es of myriads of

wi ld fowl on the nesting groun ds Swal
- -
.

lows were skimming up ov erhead from the

placid surface of the Yukon and robi ns ,

were S inging The obli que rays of the

.

hi dden sun shot through the smok e hi gh ,

dissipated from f orest res a thousand

miles away and turned the heavens to
,

sombre red while the earth shone red in

,

the reected glow T hi s red glow shone

.

i n the fac es o f all and mad e everythi ng

,

seem unearthly and unreal .

The biddi ng began slowly The Sitkan .

,

who was a stranger in the land and who

had arrived o nl y hal f an hour b efore ,

Offered on e hundred doll ars i n a cond ent

voice and was surpris ed when Akoon
,

turn ed threat eni ngly upon him with the

ri e The biddi ng dragged An I ndi an
. .

f rom the Toz ik a kat a pilot bid one hun

, ,

dr ed and fty and aft er some time a

,

gambler who had been ordered out of the

,
2 52 THE WI T OF PORPOR TU K
Upp er Country rais ed , bid to two
t he

hundred E l SO O was sadd en ed her pride

.
-

was hurt ; but the onl y effect was that she

amed mor e audaciously upon the crowd .

There was a di sturbanc e among t he ou

look ers as Porportu k forc ed hi s way to the

front . Five hundred dollars ! b e bid
in a loud voice th en look ed about hi m
,

proudly to not e t he eff ect .

He was mind ed to u se hi s gr eat wealth

as a bludgeon with whi ch to stun all com
petition a t t he start But on e of the.

voyageurs looking on E l Soo with spark

,
-

ling eyes rais ed the bid a hundred

, .

S even hundred Porpor tu k returned

promptly .

And with equal promptness ca me the

Eight hundr ed of the voyageur
, .

Th en Porp ortuk swung hi s club again .

Tw elv e hundr ed ! he shouted .

With a look O f poignant di sappointment ,

the voya geur succumbed There was no .

2 54 THE WI T OF PORPOR TUK
of hi s
wealth making a clean raise of v e
,

hun dr ed dollars But the Eldorado king s

.

pride was touched NO man could club .

him And he swung back anoth er v e

.

hundred .

E l Soo stood at three thousand

-
Porp or .

tuk mad e it thirty v e hundr ed and gasp ed

-

wh en the Eldorado king rais ed it a thou

sand dollars Porportuk again raised it
.

v e hundr ed and again gasp ed when the

,

ki ng rais ed a thousand mor e .

Porp ortu k b ecame angry His prid e was .

touch ed ; hi s strength wa s challeng ed and ,

wi th hi m str ength took the form of w ealth .

He woul d not b e ashamed for w eakness

befor e the world E l Soo b eca me inci .
-

d ental The savi ngs and scri mpings fr om

.

the cold ni ghts of all hi s y ears w er e ripe

to be squand ered E l S oo stood at six .
-

thousa nd He made it seven thousand

. .

And then in thousand dollar bids as fast

,
-

as they coul d be uttered her pri ce went ,

 THE WI T OF PORPOR TU K 2 55

up At fourteen thousand the two men

.

stopped for breath .

Th en the unexpect ed happened A still .

heavi er club was swung I n t he pause that.

en su ed t he gambl er who had scen t ed a specu

, ,

lation and formed a syndicat e with sev eral

of hi s fellows bid sixte en thousand dollars
, .

S eventeen thousand Porport uk said ,

weakly .

Eighteen thousand said the king , .

Porportu k gathered hi s str ength .

Tw enty thousand .

The syndi cat e dropp ed ou t The E ld or .

a d o king rai sed a thousa nd and Por ort uk

p ,

raised back and as they bid Ak oon ,

turn ed from on e t o the other half m enac ,

i n gly half curiously a s though t o see what

, ,

manner of man it was that he woul d have

to kill When t he king pr epar ed t o make
.

hi s next bid Akoon having pressed clos er

, ,

th e king rst loosed the revolver at hi s hi p ,

th en said
256 T HE WI T OF POR POR TUK

Twenty thr ee thousand -

.

Tw enty four thousa nd said Porpor
-

t uk H e grinn ed viciously for t he c ertitud e

.
,

of hi s biddi ng had at last shaken t he king .

The latter moved ov er clos e t o E l Soo -

.

He studi ed her car efull y for a long ,

whi l e .

And ve hundr ed he said at last , .

Twenty v e thousand came Porpor

-

ta k s raise .

The king looked for a long space and ,

shook hi s h ead H e looked again and .

,

said r eluctantly And v e hundr ed
,
.

Tw enty six thousand -
Porport uk ,

snapp ed .

The king shook hi s h ead and r efus ed to

meet Tommy s pl eading eye In the m ean

.

tim e Akoon had edg ed close to Porp ort uk .

E l Soo s quick eye noted this and whil e

-

, ,

Tommy wrestled with the Eldorado king

for anoth er bid S he bent and Spoke in a
!

, ,

low voice in the ear of a slave And whi le .

2 58 THE WI T OF PORPORTUK

back walk ed a n other man wi th a ri e who

'

, ,

had eyes onl y for Ak oon .

Here are the notes and mortgages ,

sa i d Porpor tu k for fteen thousand
,

ni ne hundred and s ixty seven dollars and -

sev enty v e cents
'
.

E l S OO rece ived them i nto her hands and

-

sa i d t o Tommy Let them b e reckon ed

,

as sixte en thousand .

There remains ten thousand dollars to

be paid i n gold Tommy said , .

Porp ort uk nodded and untied the mouths ,

o f the sacks E l S oo sta ndi ng at the edg e

.
-

of the bank tore the papers to shreds and

,

sent them utteri ng out over the Yukon .

The we i ghi ng began but halted , .

Of course at seventeen dollars Por

, ,

rtuk had sa i d t o Tommy as he adjusted

p o ,

t he scales .

At six teen dollars El Soo sai d sharply ,

-
.

It i s the custom of all the land to

reckon gold at seventeen dollars f or each
 T H E WI T O F PORPOR TUK 259
'

ounce Porportuk repli ed

,
And thi s i s .

a business transacti on .

E l S OO laughed
-
It i s a new custom .
,

she said It b egan thi s S pring Last

. .

year and the years be f ore i t wa s sixteen

, ,

dollars an ounce When my father s d ebt .

was mad e i t was sixt een dollars Wh en

, .

he spent at t he store t he money he got

from you for one ounce he was giv en six
,

teen dollars worth oi our n ot seventeen , .

Wh erefor e shall you pay for me at six

,

t een and n ot at seventeen
,
Porportuk .

grunted and allowed the weighing to pro

oe cd .

Weigh i t i n thr ee pi les Tommy she , ,

sa i d. A thousand dollars here three ,

thousand here and here s ix thousand , .

It was slow work and whi l e the weighi ng , ,

went on Akoon was closely watched by all

, .

He but wa i ts ti ll the money i s paid ,

on e said ; and the word went around and

was accepted and they wa i ted for what
,
2 60 T HE WI T OF PORPOR TU K

Ak oon S houl d do wh en the money was paid .

And Porportuk s man with the r ie waited

and watch ed Akoon .

The weighing was ni sh ed and the gold ,

dust lay on the table in three dark y ellow -

h eaps .There is a d ebt OI my father to .

t he Company for t hree tho usand dollars ,

said El Soo -
Take it Tommy for the
.
, ,

Company And here a re four Old men

.
,

Tommy Y ou know them And h ere is

. .

one thou sand dollars Tak e it and see .

,
-

that the Old men are never hungry and

never w i thout tobacco .

Tommy scooped the gold into s eparate

sacks Six thousand doll ars remained on
.

the table E l Soo thr ust the scoop into

.
-

the hea p and with a sudden turn whi rled

,

t he contents out and down t o the Yukon

i n a golden shower Porportuk s ei zed her .

wrist as she thrust the scoop a second ti me

i nto the heap .

It is mine she sa i d calmly Porpor

, .
2 62 THE WI T OF PORPOR TU K

ounces paid for you wi ll buy at t he post

t od ay seventeen dollars of our and not
i
,

sixteen I have lost a dollar on each ounce

. .

I have lost six hundred and tw enty v e -

dollars .

E l SOO thought for a moment and saw

-
,

t he error she had made She smiled and .

,

then she laughed .

Y ou are right she laughed I made

, ,

a mistake But it is too late You have

. .

pa i d and the gold i s gone You did not

, .

thi nk quick It is your loss Your wi t is

. .

slow th ese days Porportuk Y ou are get

, .

ting old .

He di d not answer He glanced uneasily .

at Ak oon and was reassured His lips

, .

tightened and a hi nt of cruelty came into

,

hi s face Come he said
. we will go
, ,

t o my house .

D O you remember the two t hi ngs I told

you in the spring ? E l S oo asked mak -

i ng n o moveme nt to accom p any hi m ,

 TH E WI T OF PORPORTUK 263

My head would be full with the thi ngs

women say did I heed them he answered
, , .

I told you that you woul d be paid ,

El S oo went on care fully

-
A nd I told .

you that I woul d never be your wife .

But that was before the b i ll of sale .

Porport uk crackled the paper between hi s

ngers i nside the pouch I have bought .

you before all the world You belong to .

me You wi ll not deny that you belong

.

t o me .

I belong t o you El S oo sa i d steadi ly,

-
.

I own you .

You own me .

Porport uk s voice rose sli ghtly and tr i

umphantly As a d og I own you

.
, .

A s a dog you own me E l SOO con ,
-

ti nu ed calmly But Porport uk you for

.
, ,

get the thi ng I told you Had any other .

man bought me I S houl d have been that

,

man s wife I should have been a good

.

wi fe to th at man Such was my wi ll , .

2 64 THE WIT OF PORPORTUK
But my will with you was that I shoul d
never b e your wife Wherefore I am your
.
,

dog .

Porport uk knew that he play ed with r e ,

and he resolved to play rm ly Th en I .

speak to you not as E l S OO but as a dog

,
~
, ,

he sa id ; and I tell you to com e with

me . He half reached to grip her arm but ,

with a gesture she h eld hi m back .

Not so fast Porport u k You buy a

, .

dog The dog runs away It is your loss

. . .

I am your dog What if I run away

.

As the owner of the dog I S hall beat ,

you
When you catch me

When I catch you .

Then catch me .

He reached swi ftly for her but she eluded ,

hi m She laughed as she circled around

.

t he table . Catch her ! Porportuk com

m a n d ed the Indian with the rie who ,

stood near t o her B ut a s t he I n di a n

,
2 66 THE WI T OF PORPOR TUK

dress her feet were not cluttered with

,

skirts and her pli ant b od y curved a ight

,

that deed the gripping ngers of Porp ort uk .

With laughter and tumult the great ,

crowd scattered ou t to see the chase It .

led through the Indian encampment ; and

ever dodging circling and reversing E l
, , ,

SOO and Porportuk appeared and di sa p

p ea r ed among the t ents E l S oo.se emed-

to balance herself against the air wi th her

arms now one side now on the other and
, , ,

someti mes her b ody too leaned out upon

, ,

the air far from the perpendicul ar as she

achi eved her sharpest curves And Por .

ort u k always a leap be hi nd or a leap thi s

p , ,

side or that lik e a lean hound strai ned

,

aft er her .

They crossed the open ground beyond the

encampment and di sappeared in the forest .

Tana H aw Station waited their reappe ar

-

ance and long and vai nl y it waited

,
.

I n t he m eantim e A ko on ate and sl ep t ,

 THE WI T OF PORPOR TU K 2 67

and li ngered much at the steamboat land

ing deaf to the rising resentment of Ta na
,

naw Station in that he di d nothi ng Twenty .

four hours later Porportuk returned He .

was tired and savage He spoke to no one .

but Akoon and wi th hi m tri ed to pick a

,

quarrel But Akoon shrugged hi s shoulders

.

and walked away Porportuk did not .

waste ti me He outtted half a doz en of

.

the young men selecti ng the best trackers

,

and travellers and at their head plunged

,

into the forest .

Next day the steamer S ea ttle b ound up ,

river pulled i n to the shore and wooded

,

up When the li nes were cast off and she

.

churned out from the bank Akoon was on ,

b oard in the pilot house Not many hours -

.

afterward when it was hi s turn at the

,

wheel he saw a small birch bark canoe

,
-

put off from the shore There was onl y .

on e person i n it He studi ed i t ca refully

.
,

p ut the wheel over and slowe d down , ,

2 68 THE WI T OF POR POR TU K

The captain enter ed t he pilot hous e -

.

What s t he matt er

he demand ed .

The water s good .

Akoo n grunted H e saw a larger canoe

.

leaving the ba nk and in it wer e a num b er

,

of persons As t he S ea ttle lost headway

.
,

he put the wh eel over some more .

The captain fum ed

It s only a squaw
.
,

he protested .

Akoon di d not g r unt He was all ey es .

for t he squaw and the pursui ng cano e .

I n t he latter six paddl es were ashi ng while ,

the squaw paddled slowly .

You ll be aground t he captain pro

tested s eizi ng the wheel

, .

But Akoon countered hi s strength on

the whe el and looked him i n the ey es The .

captain slowly released t he spokes .

Q ueer beggar he sniffed to hi ms elf
, .

A koon held the S ea ttle on the edg e of the

S hoal water and waited till he saw the

s quaw s ngers clut ch the forward ra il .
27 0 T HE WI T O F PORPOR TU K

m occasin ed feet that were tirel ess through

the longest days .

Y ou a r e light as air he said looking

, ,

up at her . It is no lab our for you to

walk You a lmost oat so lightly do your ,

feet rise and fall Y ou a r e lik e a d eer

.
,

E l S oo ; you a r e like a d eer and your

-

eyes are li ke de er s eyes som etim es wh en
,

y ou loo k at m e or when y ou h ea r a quick

,

sound and wond er if it b e danger that stirs .

Your ey es a r e lik e a deer s eyes now as

y o u look at me .

And E lSoo luminous and m elti ng bent

, ,

and ki ssed Akoon .

When we reach the Mackenzi e we will ,

n ot delay , Ak oon said later We will .

g o south before the w i nter catches us We .

will go t o the sunlands where th ere is n o

snow But we wi ll return I have seen
. .

much of the world and there i s n o land ,

lik e A laska no sun li ke ou r su n and the

, ,

snow i s good a fter the long s um mer .
 T HE WI T O F PORPOR TU K 271

A nd you wi ll learn to rea d sa i d Rl S oo

,
-
.

A nd Akoon sa i d , I wi ll surely learn to

read.

But there was delay when they reached

the Macken zi e Th ey fell i n with a band
.

of Macken zi e I ndi ans and hunti ng A koon , ,

was shot by acci dent The rie was in .

t he hands of a youth The bull et broke .

Ak oon s ri ght arm and ranging farther

, ,

broke two of hi s r ibs Akoon knew rough .

surgery w hi le El Soo had learned some re

,
-

nements at Holy Cros s The bones were .

nally set and A koon lay by the re for

,

th em to kni t A lso ; he la y by the re so

.

that the smoke woul d keep the mosqui toes

away .

Then i t was that Porportuk wi th hi s ,

six young men arriv ed Ak oon groaned

, .

i n hi s helpless ness and made appeal to the

M acken zi es But Porportuk made de
.

mand and the M ackenzies were perplexed

, .

Porport uk was for se izi ng upon E IS OO but ,

2 72 T HE WI T OF PORPOR TU K

thi s th ey woul d n ot p ermit Judgm ent .

must be giv en and as it was an a ffair of

, ,

man and woman the council of t he Old

,

men was ca ll ed thi s that warm j udgment

might not be given by the young men who ,

were warm of heart .

The old men sat in a circl e about the

smudge r e Their fac es were lean and
-
.

wri nkled and th ey gasp ed and panted for

,

a i r The smoke was not good for th em

. .

O c casi onally they struck with withered

hands at the mosqui toes that braved the
smoke After such exertion they coughed
.

hollowly and painfully S ome spat blood .

,

and on e of th em sat a b i t apart with head

bowed forward and bled slowly and con
,

ti nu ou sly at the mouth ; the coughing

sickness had gri pped them Th ey were as .

dead men th eir time wa s short I t was a .

judgment of the dead .

A nd I pai d for her a heavy pri ce ,

Porp ortuk concluded hi s complai nt Such .

274 TH E WI T OF PORPOR TU K

It is true Porportuk is an old man

, ,

sa i d E l S OO -
.

It i s for Porport uk to measure the

strength of hi s a ge said he who bled at ,

the mouth We b e Old m en Behold !

. .

A ge is never so Old a s youth woul d mea

sure it .

A nd the circle of Old men champed th eir

gums and nodd ed approvingly and
, ,

I told hi m that I would never be hi s

wi fe said E l Soo
,
-
.

Yet you took from hi m twenty six -

ti mes all that we possess ? asked a one

eyed old man .

E l S oo wa s silent
-
.

It is true ? And hi s on e eye burned

and b ored into her li ke a ery giml et .

I t is true she sai d , .

But I wi ll run away again she broke ,

ou t passi onately a moment later , Al .

ways wi ll I run away .
 T HE WI T O F PORPOR TU K 2 75

Tha t is for Porpor tuk to consider ,

said another of the Old men It i s for .

us to cons i der the j udgment .

What price di d you pay for her ?

was demand ed of Akoon .

No pric e di d I pay for her he a n ,

swer ed . She was above price I di d .

n ot mea sure her in gold dust n or i n dogs

-
, ,

and tents and furs

, .

The Old men d ebated among thhm selv es

and mum bl ed in undertones These old
.

men are i ce Akoon said in Engli sh
, I .

will not li st en to their j udgment Porpor ,

tu k If you take E l S OO I will surely kill

-

y ou .

The Old men ceased and regarded hi m

su spi ci ou slyx We d o not know the speech
y ou make , on e said.

He but said that he would kill m e ,

Porportu k volunteered . S o it were wel l

t o take from him hi s rie and t o hav e some
,

of your young men sit by hi m that he ,

276 TH E WI T O F PORPOR TU K

may n ot d o me hurt He i s a young man

.
,

and what are broken b ones to youth

Ak oon lyi ng helpless had rie and kni fe
, ,

ta ken fr om hi m and to either side of his

,

shoul ders sat young men of the Mackenzies .

The on e eyed old man arose and stood

-

upri ght . We marvel at the price paid for

on e mere woman he began ;
, but the
wisdom of the pri ce i s no concern of ours .

We are here t o give j udgment and j udg ,

ment we give We have no doubt It i s

. .

known t o all that Porportuk paid a heavy

pri ce for the woman E l SO O Wh er efore -
.

does the woman E lSO O b elong t o Porp or

tuk and none other He sat down heavily ,

and coughed The Old men nodded and

.

coughed .

I wi ll ki ll you Akoon cried i n Eng

,

li sh.

Porp ortuk sm i led and stood up Y ou .

have given true j udgment he sai d to the ,

council ,
and my young men will give t o
27 8 T HE W I T O F PORPORTU K

Macken zi e I was of one m i nd As I lis

, .

tened in the counci l and thought O f t he

swift legs of E l Soo I was of many minds
-

, .

N ow am I of on e m i nd aga i n but it i s a ,

diff erent mind from the one I brought t o

the counci l Let me t ell you my mind
. .

When a d og runs once away from a mast er ,

it wi ll ru n away again No matt er how .

many times i t i s brought back each tim e it ,

wi ll run away again When we have such .

dogs we sell th em E l Soo i s lik e a dog

, .
-

that runs away I will sell her I s there

. .

any man of the council that will buy

The Old men coughed and remained
silent .

Akoon would buy Porportuk went ,

on, but he has n o mon ey Wher efor e I .

will g ive E l Soo t o him as he said without

-

, ,

price Ev en n ow will I give her t o hi m
. .

Reachi ng down he took E l S OO by the

,
-

hand and led her across the space t o where

Akoon lay on hi s back .
 TH E WI T O F PORPOR TU K 279

She has a bad hab i t Akoon he sa i d , , ,

sea ti ng her at Akoon s feet A s she has

.

run away from me in the past i n the days ,

t o come she may run away from you But .

ther e i s no need to fear that she wi ll ever

run away Akoon I shall see t o that
, . .

N ever wi ll she run away from you thi s i s

the word of Porportuk She has great .

wi t I know for often has it bitten i nto

.
,

me Yet am I m i nded myse lf to give my

.

wi t play for once A nd by my w i t wi ll I

.

secure her to you Ak oon , .

Stooping P rport uk crossed E S oo s

o, l

feet so that the i nstep of on e lay over that

,

of the other ; and then before hi s pur ,

pose could be divi ned be discharged hi s ,

rie through the two ankles AS Akoon .

struggled t o rise aga i nst the weight of the

young men there was heard the crunch
,

of the broken b one r ebroken .

I t is j ust sa i d the Old men on e to

, ,

another .
280 TH E WI T O F PORPOR TUK

E l SO O-
made no sound She sa t and .

looked at her shattered ankles on whi ch ,

she would never walk agai n .

My l egs are stron g El SOO Akoon ,

-

sa i d. But never wi ll they b ear me away

from you .

E l SOO looked at hi m and f or the rst

-

ti me i n all the time he had known her ,

Ak oon saw tears i n her eyes .

Your eyes are lik e deer s eyes El

Soo , he said .

I s it j ust ? Porport uk asked and ,

gri nned from the edge of the smoke as he

prepared to depart .

It i s j ust the old men said A nd
, .

they sat on in the silence .

Pri nted by E m u, Wats on 4: Vi ney , Ld Lon d

on and Ayl esbury .
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Th e Ma n r o m No w h er e f V I CT O R BR I DGES
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S I X PE NNY NO V E L S
Pi c t u r e C o v e r s . De m y 8 v o .

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The Sins o f the Children . By H O R ACE W C Ns wr s .

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Livi ng Pi ctures . B y H O ACE W C N WTE R . . E .

Glasgow H er a l d . None of t hm e i s l ess t h b an r i l l ia n t.

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The Lonely Lovers . B y H OR A W C

CE NE WT E
A v y v i vi d
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Da i l y Chrom ol e
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The Summer Book . By MAX PE MB E R T ON .

The Adventures of Captain J ack

A h ut or o f Th e S u m mer B oo k.
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. A u t h or o f
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The Pilgrimage of a Fool By J E . . B U CK R OS E .

Globe . w y b v d y v
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Fame B M CR O KE R A
By A gl uth or of
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A l v w km l k v l l w y b ight d t i
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,

S cots m an .

c e er or an i eno e , a a s r an en erta n i ng .

The Quaker Girl Th N el of th e Play By H A . e ov . R O LD

S I MPS O N .

The Education of Jacqueline By C LAI RE DE PB AT Z,

A h b h
.

ut or o f E l i sa et Da v en a y
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The Silence Broken B y Mrs B AI LLI E RE YNO LDS A t h u or

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e oo or e su er o a s, e
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My Year Series
My Cos m o p o l i ta n Y ear By A . th e u th or of
"
Mes
t ri ng
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an d A sh s f I n c n s

e o e e. With 24 Ill us

tra ti on s D my 8 . 10 e vo . 3 . 6d . n e t.

Tim es H ere we ha e t he f resh

bree y co mme ts who v an d z n o f on e has
see the c t es the m d ma y m
.

i
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w m r htly wr t te
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a fa our te w th obs r t ra ellers
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,

v i i e t v .

My Pari s i an Y ear By MAU DE AN NE S LEY W i th . .

16 Illustrati on s fro m P h o to g ra ph and s 1 in C ol o ur .

D my 8
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Pa l l t
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My G erm an Year By L A R W YLIE A t . . .

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Th Ra j ah s P opl W i th 2 I ll t ti i C l
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a n d 1 8 from Ph t g ph D my 8 S co n d E di ti o o ra s. e vo. e on .

1 0 3 6d . . n et .

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se l o m m in e t i ng ook.
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us t ra t i on s
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B ys a d r
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10
 M I L LS BO O NS

R A M B LE S S E R I E S
S o a usp i ct cm s ly i na u g u r a t ed wi th M i s s I Vy l i e s '
a nd Afr o
o
.

G os tl mg s v l u mes L I VE R P O O L C O U R I E R
'
. .

T hey teem w it h i n ter es ti n g i nf o r ma ti on a bo u t p eop l e a nd

p l a ces S TA ND A R D
"
. .

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aro n .

F R AN CE S M G O ST LIN G A th f Th Br to s at .
,
u or o e e n

Hom W i th 5 I ll t ti i C l 33 f ro m P hoto
e .

u s ra ons n o our ,

graphs a n d a Map Crow n SW 6 , . . 8 .

M che t r
an r Am us s e terest del h tful
Con n e in g, i n i ng, ig

ly Pos ery struct e ery a mus

. .

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B zr m zn
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Mor Po terest
,
. .

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n i ng st F ul l of in .

Ra mb les in the B la ck Forest By I A R WYLI ic . . . . ,

A uthor f M y G rman Y ar W i th 5 Il lustrati on s

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e e .

in

C l an d 2 4 f rom P hot graphs Crown 8

o our 6 o . v o. 8 .

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Ta tlcr true rambler '
of th e
"

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. .

for
n i ng t is i new an d
he rsel f .

Ra mb les i n Norw ay By H AR OLD S IM PS ON Wi th . .

8 Illustrat i o n s i Colour an d 32 f ro m Photographs n .

Crow n 8 v o. 68 .

Du n d Ad e er We l wor h r ad
v r ti s D es r es be W dely read l t i ng to
N orway by those w
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.

S ta d d

n ar . i e .

Ra m b le s w i th an Am er ic an in G re a t Bri tai n .

By C H R IS T IA N T E ARL E Wi th 2 1 Illustrat i on s . .

Crown 8 vo. 63 .

l
Li v erp oo Cou r i cr An i n teres e ous accou t a l terary t in g a nd i ng ni n of i
pto l r a e
i g i m g , an d i n v
Ba y
"
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has in iv an d i gi n

d wholesome r ad g
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Da i l y Exp r m Goo an d . e in .
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Ra m b les i n Irelan d By ROB E RT LYND Wi th 5 . .

Illustrat i o ns i Colour b y J AC K B YE AT S an d 2 5 fro m n .

Photograph s C ow n 8 6 . r v o. s .

P al Mall t l M r y d s del ht ul boo k wh

Gaz e te ch he pr se t
L w th n
'
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be uty s mple
a i a n d u n a e c ted
.
,

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.

d
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Da i l . i a in n o .

Ra mb le s in Fl o re nc e By G B T RO UT BEC K . . . .

Wi th 8 Illustrat i on s i Colour by R M ANDR EW an d n . O

3 2 f ro m P hoto graphs Crow n 8 6 . vo . s.

Gu a rd mn work o f a real stude t o f a te Th e n D n

"

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. .

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e Wr tte w th e ual apprec at mmof rt s c

.

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beau y h stor c reat es th s book wh ch W ll co e d tself
.

t an d i g n s, i ll on e i i n i
to e ery lo er of lore c
v v
i
F n e.

Ra m b les i n Ro m e By G E T R O UT BEC K Wi th . . . .

8 Illustrat i o n s i Colour b y R M A ND R E W an d 32 f ro m n . C
P hoto graphs Crown 8 . vo.

Ra mb les i n H olland By E d M S G RE W . . an . . .

W th 32 Illustrati on s a n d a Map Crown 8 6

i . v o. 3 .

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l A ery cha m a ery use fu book

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v r ing an d v l ,

Ra m b les in the North Yorksh ire Dales By .

J E B U CK R OSE
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. .

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D WA RD L E A R Wi th F w d by J ST LO E
By E a or e or
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P IC KL E S M A Cl t h 6d ,
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Sa n ta C la u s -
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E LIZ . rown 8vo . 18 .

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De p o rt m e n ta l D i tti e s BY H A RRY .
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P f r o u s el
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Thi rd Ed i ti on . 3 3 6d
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Da i l y Grap hi c H y hm
a rr G ra a certa i n l y has th e k n ack
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. .

Da i l Ckmmc le Al l c l e musi ng

. er, general l i ppant , i n a ri a l a .

Ca n n e d C la s s i c s , an d O th e r V e r s e s .
By
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"

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F ca p . 8r o . 3s 6d . . n et .

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E ven i n g S ta n
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MO RROW C w 4 t . ro n o. 3s 6d . . n e t.

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Chr on ic l e he i a ci o u s o h p ri ng o f a wi t t in

p v v
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Tun es M M
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Sh i p s an d Se a l i n g Wa x .
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With 40 Il l ust ra t i ons by L . R . B RI G H TWE LL C . rown

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By H AN
SA R D WATT W . i th a P ort ra i t of CO WPE R i n Ph oto
g v
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Da i l y Chr on i cl e Mr H an sar dW a tt has h i t u p h pp p

on the a y la n of
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laci ng w oe t an d l ette r -
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b d l en v m
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7s . 6d . n et .

Da i l Gr ap h w y E xtremel y i n teres ti ng , an h on est and lo t fy d v en ea ou r

to see k t h e t ru t h .

S t C la r e
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Ce n t u ri e s . By t h e A u t h or of
Th e E n cl o s ed Nu n .
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Th e To w n Of Mo r a l i ty : o r, the Narr a ti v e o f O ne
w h o Li v e d H e r e f Tim
or a e. By C . H . B . S ec on d

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C r own 8v c . 4 s 6d
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Pa l l Ma l l Ga ette T i s z h d hf b eli g t ul ook Mr L y dw n r i tes so wi t ti l y

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U n p o s t e d Le tte rs . C r own 8vo . 63 .

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A u t h or of

My I t al i a n Year .

C r o wn 8 T hi d E d i t i
yo . r on .

2s 6d . . n et . Pp o u l ar an d v
Re i se d E d i ti on , 1 3 . n et .

Scotsma n S h o ws th e sa m e i n ti ma te kn owl e ge d of I tal i an li f e and

c h arac te r as My I ta li a n Yea r .

Th e G e rm a n Sp y Sy s t e m i n Fr a n c e . T ra ns

la te d f ro m t he a c h of PA U L LAN O I E C . ro wn 8v o .

53 . n et . Pp Cv a er o er . 6d . n et .

T P
. .

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d y .

h hh h d y
A b oo k t a t s ou l a wa k en t h e u li c an d t he au t h o ri pb p p
ti es to a co n i t i on of t i n gs t a t can o n l ceas e t o b e al a ri m n g if r om t
a c t i on i s ta k en .

Th e Po c ke t Se le c h o n s fr o m the G l a d s to n e 2
'

Wri ti n gs a n d S p e e c he s o f Wi lli a m Ew a rt Gla d s to n e .

C p
om i l e d b y J A UB
R E Y R E E , Wi th a n n trod u c t i o n
. S I
b y t h e R t H on Si r GERN . ! E , PC G C B . AL ON V S T . . . .

F ca p . 8vo . Cl oth, 23 . n et . Pp a e r, n et.

Th e Po c k e t D i sr a e l i . By J . B . LIND E NB A U M MA ,

F ca p . 8vo . Cl th 2 o ,
3 . n et . Pp a e r, 13 . n et .

Th e Po c k e t As q u i th . By E . E . MO RT O N . Rea p .

8v o . Cl ot h 23 . n et . Pp a er, 13 . net .

Sp ec ta tor . S h dbou l f
e use ul t o t h e st u en t o f con te m o ra r d p yp oli ti cs .

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H A RR Y G R A H AM A , u t h or of

D epO i t men ta l D t ti
i es .

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on t i spi e ce by . ou i o n.

F p 8 8 6d
ca t P p l Edi ti 1 t
. y o. s . . ne . o u ar on , 3 . ne .

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bh g h wl y Th md lb f f mv
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F u l l a r ti c ul a r s o t es e
W H d w fk ay e obta i n e ro I LLS d B OO , LTD , .

4 9 , R u er t
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f ead s o School s a r e i n v i te to ri te or

m
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to r o v e s u i ta b l e or n trod u c t n as cl ass boo s .

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A s You Li k e I t d
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ls
Wi t Notes 1 8
la i n te x t , 6d n e t
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H en I V
Th
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Th e i n ne s t E i te Fr a n k o n es , B A ls Pl ai n te xt , 6d n et
h
Pl u m t e xt , 6d n e t
d by H B
T h e Me r c a n t of V e n i c e E d i te
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13 6d . .

F R E NC H
B a ro n s E xe r c i se s i n F r e n c F r e e C o m po s i t i on

1 3 6d h
y h
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B a r r r e s E l e m e n t a r F r e n c C o u r s e

13
d h
. .

B a r r r e s I n t e r m e i a t e F r e n c C o u r s e
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23
p v h
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83 6d . . .

B a r r er e s Rc i t s Mi l i ta l r e s 33

h P h p
. .

a s s a g e s fo r F r e n c C o m os i t i on 2s 6d

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s Fr e n c Wo r o ok 13
h Ph B
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ra s e

h v h B
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S r i e s Fi r s t F r e n c U n s een o ok 6d ne t
h v d h B
. . .

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1 3 net
f hB d
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D IR E CT METH OD F R E NC H T E XT S
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s Pl e r r ill e 1 3 Cd

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J B d
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i e ri g a n ls
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MO D E R N F R E NC H AUTH ORS
W th I n tr od ue twm
z Notes , E xer cis es for R etra ns l a tzon, Voca b u l a r i es etc.
B z h v b y
,

U r s u l a Mi r o u e t Wi t o u t oca u l a r , 28

al a c
d B v hv b y
. .

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pp hv b y h
. . . .

( l r v l l l e Le Mo u l i n F r a ier Wi t o ca u l a r , 23 Wi t o u t, Is M
v h hv b y
. . . . .

d e Ne r a l La Ma i n E n c a n t e Wi t oca u l a r , l s
d h v b y
. . .

T o u d o u z e Ma a me La m he l le
. Wi t ou t oca ula r , 2s . .

G E O G R A PH Y
We th e ril l s

Ne w P r el i y
mi na r G e og r a phy 1 3 6d
B d
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s Sc h oo l G e og r a phy . 2 8 6d . .
. . .

G ER MA N
Wa l t e r s
Re f or m Fir s t G e r m a n Bd o ok . I ll ust ra te d 84 net.
A dv d . .

La n g e

s a nce G e r m a n Re a er. 33 .

D I R E CT ME TH OD G E R MA N T E X T S
Me i s t e r Ma r t i n . E d d by H h
i te L . i rs c , Ph D . . In . M .

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MO D E R N GER MA N A U TH O R S

Wi th I n tr od uct wns , Notes, V oca bu la r i es , E xerci ses for Retr a ns la tion , etc .

A b h m w
S e l e ct i o ns fro w ii l D f
S ch arz d er o r g e s ch l c h t e n .
W hv b y W h v b y
ue r ac .

it oca u lar , 2 3 i t ou t o ca u l a r , 1 s ed
BB h d i
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W p
Ma h
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W h it
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oca
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,
1 3 6d

i t ou t, l s
i t ou t, l s 6d
.

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e ne ix es e it
b y E FJ
E ers W
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vW hb vy b yi th o u t oca u la r , 2s .

o ca u la r , 2s
.

.
. . .

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F y
re tag
He se H H b .

S ol l u n d
W h
. W h
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b v
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i t ou t
i t ou t oca u la r , 2s
oca ul a r , l s bd
. .
.

gm W h v b y
. . . .

Ho i annr M M eis ter a rt i n i t ou t oca u l a r , l s 6d

h d j ah W h v b y . . .

m


H i f n n S J i l l r u g en i t ou t oca u la r , 1 3 6d

M
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re
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S h h d Wh v b y
. . . . .

f m E
c e i te s S e l e c ti ons
l ro k ke ar i t ou t oca u lar , 23 . .

LA T I N

BW al l s

La t i n E xt r a ct s t or S i g t T ra n s l a t i o n
i l li a m so n s F i r s t La t i n U n s e e n

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.

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MA T H E MAT I C S
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ns we rs o n l
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a r a t or rit et i c . i t ans wers , 13 6d . . Wi t h ou t , 13 .

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rit hA y
i t ou t a n s w e r s , 38 6d
, .

e t i c for S c ool s a n d C o l l eg e s .
ns wers on l , 0 d n et
.

it ans wers , 4 3 W h .

h y .
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De a k i n s m P
S c o o l G e o e t r . 2 s 6d art I , l s ; Pii r t I I , 1 3 8d
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H h d A W h h . . .

o r wi t o u t a n s we rs

D ea k i n s o u s e ol cc o u nt s it 6d n e t
HH P M h m W h h
. . .

W
.

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a r r i s on s ra ct ica l at e a t i cs . it a n s , 1 3 6d i t o u t , 1 3 3d
P M h m h y
. . . .

a rri s o n s

r a ct i ca lm at e a t i c s for E l e e n t a ry S c o o l s . 6d n et
ph '
S t a i ne r s G ra m s i n Ar it h e t i c . Al g e b r a , a n d T r i g on om e t r
p 2s 6d
p A b h h
. .

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. .

a l k e r s E xa m l e s a n d T e s t Pa e r s i n
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an s wers , 23 G et I n 2 ar ts , eac Wi t a ns e rs , l s 6d
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.

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P e t er Pa n : y
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S t or o f t h e l a . Ill u st ra te y P y dd Gd
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C a d b y s ' T h e D o l l s Da y

I ll us t ra te . d h . . .

Wi t 54 I ll us trati ons
.

S h o os m t h s S c i e n ce a n d Ma g i c
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S C I E NC E

Godd d F
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or r i s

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.

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2 s 6d .
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t 1 8 I l l us ti u t i o n s
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S C R I PT U R E

G i l b ert

s Not e s on St . Ma t t h ew s

G os pe l . 13 .

E as e Wat son
. d may , at . l o ndon and Aylu bur y I B H I M