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Updated: May 15, 2025
Besides, there drifted down the river wild rumors of the wonderful El Dorado, glowing descriptions of the city of logs and tents, and ludicrous accounts of the che-cha-quas who had rushed in and were stampeding the whole country. Circle City was dead. The world had moved on up river and become a new and most marvelous world.
'I was only wondering where my wife had gone, and thought maybe I guess she's up at Mrs. Stanton's on French Gulch. Nice weather, isn't it? Heard the news? Flour's gone down to forty dollars a hundred, and they say the che-cha-quas are flocking down the river in droves. 'But I must be going; so good-by. The door slammed, and from the window they watched him take his guest up French Gulch.
She hesitated, but they jerked open the door and shoved her in. Then they ran around to come in by the front entrance. 'Where is Freda? the Old-Timers questioned, while the che-cha-quas were equally energetic in asking who Freda was. The ballroom buzzed with her name. It was on everybody's lips.
It also brings us to the trouble of 'Scruff' Mackenzie, which occurred in the old days, before the country was stampeded and staked by a tidal-wave of the che-cha-quas, and when the Klondike's only claim to notice was its salmon fisheries. 'Scruff' Mackenzie bore the earmarks of a frontier birth and a frontier life.
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