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The bear-skins on the floor, the big, sleepy chairs, the reading-table littered with magazines, the shelves of books, even the basket of fancy-work all these he could accept without further parleying; but a piano! in Kalvik! Observing his look, the girl said: "I am dreadfully extravagant, am I not? But I love it, and I have so little to do. I read and play and drive my dog-team that's about all."
A half-mile from Captain Peasley's ship, the rival Company tenders were loading rapidly with union labor, and it seemed that in spite of Boyd's plan to be first at Kalvik, Marsh's force would beat him to the ground unless greater efforts were made. When he communicated these fears to Big George, the fisherman suddenly became a slave-driver.
Then, too, I remember the story you told me at Kalvik, your mental attitude many things, in fact. Oh, it was very simple." "Well, what of it? What has all that got to do with my present difficulty?" "Listen! You want to marry the daughter of the greatest trust-builder in the country, and he doesn't want you for a son-in-law.
When at last he retired, it was with the certainty that this night had placed a new weapon in his hand; but of what tremendous value it was destined to prove, he little knew. The main body of salmon struck into the Kalvik River on the first day of July.
The task is easy, now. We will make it go, sure. These bankers know what that salmon business is. Why, I had no trouble at all. They say we can't lose if we have a good site on the Kalvik River." "They're wise, all right. I guess that girl took me for a Klondiker," George observed. "She charged me double. But she was a nice girl, though.
"Only about six weeks; then the furnace fires die out, the ships are loaded, the men go to sleep, and the breezes waft them out into the August haze, after which Kalvik sags back into its ten months' coma, becoming, as you see it now, a dead, deserted village, shunned by man." "Jove! you have a graphic tongue," said Boyd, appreciatively.
They had reached Emerson's hotel, and, escorting her to the luncheon-room, he proceeded to trace his progress from the day he had bade her farewell in the snows of Kalvik. They had finished their meal before his narrative came to a close.
You'd better go back to Kalvik, George." At this suggestion, Balt rose ponderously and began to rave. To see his vengeance slip from his grasp enraged him. He cursed shockingly, clinching his great fists above his head, and grinding forth imprecations which caused Fraser to quail and cry out aghast: "Hey, you! Quit that! D'you want to hang a Jonah onto us?"
The commission men will be in town shortly, and I shall contract for the entire catch at a stipulated price. Is that satisfactory?" "Entirely so," declared Mr. Hilliard, heartily. "Go ahead and order your machinery and supplies." As Boyd rose to go, he added, "By the way, what do you know about the mineral possibilities of the region back of Kalvik?" "Not much; the country is new.
Marsh may be a big fellow around Kalvik, but I don't think he occupies so much space in the United States that we will meet him," laughed Emerson; but even yet the girl seemed unconvinced, and went on rather fearfully: "Maybe you see him all the same." "Perhaps. What then?" "You speak my name?" "Why, no, certainly not."
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