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Chena is at the virtual head of the navigation of the Tanana River and is quite as near to the gold-producing creeks as Fairbanks, which latter place is not on the Tanana River at all but on a slough, impracticable for almost any craft at low water. For every topographical reason, from every consideration of natural advantage, Chena should have been the river port and town of these gold-fields.
The only reading-matter in any of them consisted of magazines bearing the rubber stamp of Saint Matthew's Reading-Room at Fairbanks, part of a five-hundred-pound cargo of magazines which the mission launch Pelican brought to the Iditarod the previous summer; virtually the only reading-matter in the whole camp.
"Fairbanks, the metropolis of central Alaska, was a new mining camp when the missionary Bishop secured an early entrance for the church. The log building which was a chapel on Sunday became a reading-room on week-days for the rough-clad miners. A hospital was built and it ministered to the sick through the range of a wide territory.
"What sort of conduct, then, is this?" answered Mrs. Fairbanks angrily. "Have you encouraged your son?" "Hush, mother," said Shock, suddenly awakening to an understanding of what was happening, "let me speak." The stern voice compelled silence. Shock was a new man to them all.
Shock's determination to offer himself to the far West awakened in his friends various emotions. "It is just another instance of how religious fanaticism will lead men to the most fantastic and selfish acts," was Mrs. Fairbanks' verdict, which effected in Brown a swift conversion.
Lloyd says he is a Highlander. Yes, he is, thank God. So am I. He is a man of visions. Yes, he has vision beyond the limits of his own congregation and of his own native cross-roads, vision for what lies beyond the horizon, vision for those men in the mountains who are going to the devil. A quotation, Miss Fairbanks, I assure you.
When I am in good company, I never know how time flits by, nor where to break off my talk. Come over and see me, Squire! Do come and see me. Good night." And as Fairbanks went for his horse to go home, Fabens ordered his men to quit work, and they all returned to the house in excellent spirits for supper and sleep.
How can you be so positive about a man you never have met? Whom you have seen only a time or two at a distance, on some street or was it a hotel lobby? in Valdez or Fairbanks?" "Yesterday, when we were talking, that was true; but since then I have seen him at close range. I've heard him." She turned and met Feversham's scrutiny with the brilliancy rising in her eyes.
I hesitated, for the next query would be, "What paper? At length I thought of the note of correction I wrote for the Louisville Courier, while in that city, in behalf of Calvin Fairbanks, while he was there in prison. I finally told him I would not say I had never written any thing for a paper.
They want machines in these stores, and we are the nearest substitutes." "Well, why don't you all rebel and force your employers to think differently? Mind, I don't tell you to do it. I am just asking for information." "It would do no good; we would simply lose our places, and for each one of us there would be ten applicants to-morrow." Miss Fairbanks spoke the truth, and she spoke it sadly.
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