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This cabin was not his, by the way, having been built several years previously by a couple of miners who had got out a raft of logs at that point for a grub-stake. They had been most hospitable lads, and, after they abandoned it, travelers who knew the route made it an object to arrive there at nightfall.
"It's safer with you than with me," he excused himself. "Fasten it inside your dress. It's our grub-stake into the mountains." Mary Josephine accepted the treasure with the repressed delight of one upon whose fair shoulders had been placed a tremendous responsibility. There were days of both joy and pain for Keith.
I'll get you an interest in a mine. Put a name to what you want." "I'm no robber. You paid the expenses of my trip. That's all I want right now." "It's not all you'll get. Do you think I'm a cheap piker? No, sir. You've got to let me grub-stake you." Mackenzie thumped a clinched fist down on the table. "All right, seh. You're the doctor.
I'm scared to carry it away wid me." "You're safe, Biddy; nobody will steal that check." A sudden impulse seized him. "Dan, you believed in me in those days give me that check." Dan slowly handed to him the check. Clement took it and turned. "Biddy, you fed me when I was starving, and you pawned everything you had to 'grub-stake' me give me your check." She handed it to him without hesitation.
I knew if Weatherbee had spent two years on that placer, the gravels had something to show. The point that weighed was that he was willing to go home at last to the States. I had urged him before I put up the grub-stake, but he had answered: 'Not until I have made good. It was hardly probable that, failing to hear from me, he had sold out to any one else.
In the 'wash' of Ninety-eight we took up seventy sacks to bring our gold back in and we lacked thirty of doin' the job. Nine hundred thousand dollars in a single clean-up, and that was only the beginning. Well, I went busted again. And old Aleck went busted later on. But he had a pretty wife left. A girl from Seattle. I had to grub-stake."
In the early spring the old man had disappeared into the mountain with powder, drills, and a three months' grub-stake. He had told no one of his destination, and when he had returned the most he would say was that he had "been peckin' on a ledge all summer." He sent samples of his rock outside but did not show the assays.
Gold there was and is yet, but in small quantities only. The "cities" are mere collections of tumble-down huts amongst which the moose roam at will. Interior Alaska has many such abandoned "cities." The few men now in the district have placer claims that yield a "grub-stake" as a sure thing every summer, and spend their winters chiefly in prospecting for quartz.
He had a little money, "enough for a grub-stake," he said, and all his folks were dead. Then a college friend of his wrote a rural play called Sweet Peas "Great title, don't you think?" he asked and he put up all the money.
One day I had a pain, and they wanted to cut out something from inside me. Think what can happen to a man when he's got money!" "You mean all that, Stampede?" "On my life, I do. I'm just aching for the open skies, Alan. The mountains. And the yellow stuff that's going to be my playmate till I die. Somebody'll grub-stake me in Nome." "They won't," said Alan suddenly. "Not if I can help it.
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