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The Kid was conversant with their French patois, and followed it anxiously. They swore that the dogs were gone up; that Siwash and Babette would have to be shot before the first mile was covered; that the rest were almost as bad; and that it would be better for all hands to rest up. 'Lend me five dogs? he asked, turning to Malemute Kid. But the Kid shook his head.
My God! The poor fellow staggered back, half fainting from exhaustion and disappointment, murmuring something about the run from Dawson in ten hours and the dogs being played out. Malemute Kid forced a mug of punch upon him; then he turned for the door, ordering the dog drivers to follow. But the warmth and promise of rest were too tempting, and they objected strenuously.
One night, many weeks later, Malemute Kid and Prince fell to solving chess problems from the torn page of an ancient magazine. The Kid had just returned from his Bonanza properties and was resting up preparatory to a long moose hunt. Prince, too, had been on creek and trail nearly all winter, and had grown hungry for a blissful week of cabin life. 'Interpose the black knight, and force the king.
But the big patent thing was the love and loyalty they bore their leader. They named him variously? Black Tom, Blondine, Husky Travers, Malemute Tom, Swiftwater Tom but most of all he was Captain Tom.
For eighteen months I lived along the edges of the Arctic trying to take an impossible census of the Eskimo for the government." "I knew something of the sort when I first looked at you," said Adare. "I can tell an Arctic man, just as I can pick a Herschel dog or an Athabasca country malemute from a pack of fifty. We have much to talk about, my boy. We will be great friends.
Malemute Kid was half-tempted to play his reserve card and win the game; but the lesson was too mild as yet, and he let it pass. The next instant they had gripped hands, and the King's beaded moccasins were drawing protests from the outraged snow as he crunched down the hill.
Madeline in collapse was another woman to the mischievous creature of an hour before, whose laughter had been so infectious and whose heightened color and flashing eyes had made her teachers for the while forget. Weak and nerveless, she sat in the chair just as she had been dropped there by Prince and Harrington. Malemute Kid frowned. This would never do.
'I'm sorry for you know Carmen. Leaving the girl crying softly over her man, Malemute Kid slipped into his parka and snowshoes, tucked his rifle under his arm, and crept away into the forest. He was no tyro in the stern sorrows of the Northland, but never had he faced so stiff a problem as this.
'Well, then, what do you think of a promise made by me? 'As good as your bond, from Bettles. 'The thing to safely sling yer hopes of heaven by, promptly endorsed Lon McFane. 'Listen! I, Malemute Kid, give you my word and you know what that means that the man who is not shot stretches rope within ten minutes after the shooting. He stepped back as Pilate might have done after washing his hands.
One two three, one two three. Round and round went Prince and Madeline in an interminable waltz. The table and stools had been shoved over against the wall to increase the room. Malemute Kid sat on the bunk, chin to knees, greatly interested. Jack Harrington sat beside him, scraping away on his violin and following the dancers.
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