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Save him who has done the like, no man may know what she endured in traveling a hundred miles on the rim-ice; nor may they understand the toil and hardship of breaking the two hundred miles of packed ice which remained after the river froze for good. But Madeline was an Indian woman, so she did these things, and one night there came a knock at Malemute Kid's door.
He started off with a pleased grin on his face, but Malemute Kid halted him. 'Lon! It's a long while since you first knew me? 'Many's the day. 'And you, Bettles? 'Five year next June high water. 'And have you once, in all that time, known me to break my word' Or heard of me breaking it? Both men shook their heads, striving to fathom what lay beyond.
We'll hear of him if he stays in the country 'And if he doesn't? 'Then my good nature gets a shock, and I'm sixty some odd ounces out. The cold weather had come on with the long nights, and the sun had begun to play his ancient game of peekaboo along the southern snow line ere aught was heard of Malemute Kid's grubstake.
'Held up Harry McFarland's for forty thousand; exchanged it at the P.C. store for a check on Seattle; and who's to stop the cashing of it if we don't overtake him? When did he pull out? Every eye suppressed its excitement, for Malemute Kid had given the cue, and the young officer encountered wooden faces on every hand. Striding over to Prince, he put the question to him.
A big stump-tailed dog of the Malemute tribe at times followed at her heels, but when she had patted his head and spoken kindly to him he appeared satisfied, and lay down again with his head between his paws.
The salt spray froze upon my mother's breast till her breath passed with the passing of the tide. But I I raised my voice with the wind and the storm, and lived. 'We dwelt in Akatan 'Where? asked Malemute Kid. 'Akatan, which is in the Aleutians; Akatan, beyond Chignik, beyond Kardalak, beyond Unimak. As I say, we dwelt in Akatan, which lies in the midst of the sea on the edge of the world.
'Today. A murmur of surprise passed round the circle. And well it might; for it was just midnight, and seventy-five miles of rough river trail was not to be sneered at for a twelve hours' run. The talk soon became impersonal, however, harking back to the trails of childhood. As the young stranger ate of the rude fare Malemute Kid attentively studied his face.
'Don't, Mason, entreated Malemute Kid; 'the poor devil's on its last legs. Wait and we'll put my team on. Mason deliberately withheld the whip till the last word had fallen, then out flashed the long lash, completely curling about the offending creature's body. Carmen for it was Carmen cowered in the snow, cried piteously, then rolled over on her side.
So journeyed this strangely assorted couple down to old Fort Selkirk, then through fivescore miles of dismal wilderness to Stuart River. And when the short day left them, and the man lay down in the snow and blubbered, it was the woman who lashed him to the sled, bit her lips with the pain of her aching limbs, and helped the dog haul him to Malemute Kid's cabin.
He is-still in the snow. The two men looked at each other helplessly. 'Who is in the snow? 'She, Unga. She looked at me with the hate in her eye, and then 'Yes, yes. 'And then she took the knife, so; and once, twice she was weak. I traveled very slow. And there is much gold in that place, very much gold. 'Where is Unga? For all Malemute Kid knew, she might be dying a mile away.
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