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The dogs were so weak that he was forced to rest them, and, waiting, he leaned limply against the gee-pole. A man, an eminently decorous-looking man, came sauntering by in a great bearskin coat. He glanced at Rasmunsen curiously, then stopped and ran a speculative eye over the dogs and the three lashed sleds. "What you got?" he asked.
The snow was entirely gone from the pass, so the sled was abandoned left standing upright, with its gee-pole sticking in the air that if any one else ever chanced to want it it might readily be found. The snow-shoes were piled around it, and we resumed our packs and climbed up to the pass.
Saltman emitted a shrill whistle as the sled started, and swung in behind. From down the hill and across the flat came the answering whistles of the relays. Shorty was at the gee-pole, and Smoke and Saltman walked side by side. "Look here, Bill," Smoke said. "I'll make you a proposition. Do you want to come in alone on this?" Saltman did not hesitate. "An' throw the gang down? No, sir.
Perhaps they had left mothers or wives or sweethearts to mourn them. Macdonald relieved Elliot at breaking trail and the young man went back to the gee-pole. They had discarded mukluks and wore moccasins and snowshoes. It was hard, slow work, for the trail-breaker had to fight his way through snow along the best route he could find. The moon was high when at last they reached the roadhouse.
Then suddenly, bewildering in its unexpectedness, came the flash and crack of a rifle from the bushes in shore. "Sacree!" cried the half-breed, and the next moment three rifles spoke, and he pitched over in the snow, whilst the man at the gee-pole also fell. The man breaking the trail in front, swerved from the bluff, and the dogs swerved after him, almost upsetting the sledge.
The Virgin wanted to kiss him, and, fuddled slightly though he was with the whiskey, he saw his way out without compromising with the apron-string. He kissed the Virgin, but he kissed the other three women with equal partiality. He pulled on his long mittens, roused the dogs to their feet, and took his Place at the gee-pole. "Mush, you beauties!" he cried.
She glanced once at Bill, but she did not see the world of despair that came into his face at the delight with which she spoke. "You and I will take turns pulling the sled; Bill will hang on to the gee-pole. And Bill says you know the way. We're going to dash right through camp out only two nights." "I know the way all right," Harold answered. "What about food?"
Start up again, Jack. See this way. Prince executed the movement as one should who has led the cotillion. 'Now; one two three, one two three. Reverse! Ah! that's better. Try it again. I say, you know, you mustn't look at your feet. One two three, one two three. Shorter steps! You are not hanging to the gee-pole just now. Try it over. 'There! that's the way.
The runner was forced to lift the toe of the shoe sharply, and the snow swirled past his ankles like foam. Behind him, in the trail thus broken and packed for them, trotted the dogs, their noses low, their jaws hanging. Sam drove with two long-lashed whips; and May-may-gwán, clinging to the gee-pole, guided the sledge.
By the time his search had disclosed nothing more than many bruises and a state of terrible starvation, the sled was a quarter of a mile away. Dog and man watched it crawling along over the ice. Suddenly, they saw its back end drop down, as into a rut, and the gee-pole, with Hal clinging to it, jerk into the air. Mercedes's scream came to their ears.
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