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She could not be broken-hearted for Mynheer van Hunker, nor did she profess so to be, but she said he had been kind to her much kinder since she had really tried to please him; and that, she said and then broke off was after he your brother my lord And she went no further, but I knew well afterwards what that chance meeting had done for her that meeting which, with such men as I had too often seen at Paris, might have been fatal for ever to her peace of mind and purity of conscience by renewing vain regrets, not to be indulged without a stain.
But the Infant had already made the sign, and we heard Imam Din hunker down on the floor: One gets little out of the East at attention. "When the fever came on our Sahib in our roofed house at Dupe," he began, "the Hajji listened intently to his talk.
Bill Hunker sprang in front of those men and roared: "I'll put the irons on the first son of a gun who ducks under that rope!" That stopped them. McCann was livid with fury. It seemed that he meant to spring at Merriwell, who stood calmly facing him. "Hold on, you!" said Frank, shaking a finger at the captain of the Rovers.
He voted for Sumner, but he was greatly annoyed by the charge of the Whigs that there had been an unholy coalition between a portion of the Democratic Party and the Free- soilers. In replying to the allegations, he made the counter charge that there was a coalition between the Whigs and the "old hunker Democrats" as they were called. They were, in fact, the Democrats who would not vote for Sumner.
Instead, Daylight continued down Hunker to the Klondike, and on to the summer fishing camp of the Indians on the Yukon. Here for a day he camped with Carmack, a squaw-man, and his Indian brother-in-law, Skookum Jim, bought a boat, and, with his dogs on board, drifted down the Yukon to Forty Mile. August was drawing to a close, the days were growing shorter, and winter was coming on.
During the Senatorial contest I was urged by the supporters of Sumner to aid his election, and by the "hunker" wing of the Democratic Party I was urged to bring the influence of the administration to bear against Mr. Sumner. To all I made the same reply. I said: "I am not pledged to elect Mr. Sumner, I am not pledged to defeat him. The subject is in the control of the Legislature."
Frank slapped the downcast old man on the shoulder and tried to brace him up, but Given was so depressed that he refused to cheer up in the slightest. "Think you can find your way home, Eli?" asked Hunker. "Well, I'm over seven and I'm sober now," was the answer. "Don't you fret 'bout me. I'll git home, all right."
The mining claims begin within two and a half miles of Dawson City, on the Klondike, and follow both sides of that stream into the interior, taking in its tributaries like Hunker's Creek, Gold Bottom, Last Chance, Bear Creek, Bould's Bonanza, and El Dorado. Of these the richest are El Dorado, Gold Bottom, Hunker, and the oddly named Too Much Gold Creek.
She had heard all this from Harry Merrycourt, and also that my brother had gathered up the pearls, and, with some other gentlemen, who had picked them up while the poor lady was carried from the room, had given them to my Lady Hartwell to be returned to Madame van Hunker, not of course escaping the remark from some of the stricter sort that it was a lesson against the being adorned with pearls and costly array.
Bright and early the following morning Hunker and several villagers appeared at Merry Home and asked leave to use Frank's boats in the search for the body of the Mexican. After breakfast Merriwell and a number of his friends went over to the lake and found the searchers at work. Hunker reported that they had discovered no trace of the missing man.
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