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I'd forgive you if you had stolen it." He began to dress hurriedly. "You are the fairy prince of this enterprise, Alton, and you can go to Kalvik and pick flowers or play the mandolin or do anything you wish. Now for a telegram to the bank at Seattle. We leave to-morrow." "Oh, here, now! I can't get my wardrobe ready." "Ward nothing! You don't need any clothes!
There is a woman at Kalvik who has some men out prospecting." "Cherry Malotte?" "Do you know her?" asked Boyd, with astonishment. "Very well, indeed. I have had some correspondence with her quite recently." Then, noting Boyd's evident curiosity, he went on: "You see, I have made a number of mining investments in the North entirely on my own account," he hastened to explain.
"The country is a bit different, but the people are much the same in Kalvik and in Chicago. You will find unscrupulous men and unselfish women everywhere." Mildred gave her a cool glance that took her in from head to foot. "And vice versa, I dare say. You speak from a wider experience than I." With a careless nod she picked her way toward the launch, where her friends were already assembling.
"He is a character, isn't he? He told me how you rescued that girl when she broke through the ice at Kalvik." "He did?" "Quite a romance, wasn't it? It is a good newspaper story and I'll play it up. He is going to let me in on that hydraulic proposition of yours, too. Of course I haven't much money, but it sounds great, and "
"Him our little broder," came the deep voice of Constantine, who had entered unnoticed; and a moment later, in obedience to an order from Cherry, they bore their charge to their own quarters at the rear. "I dare say Kalvik is rather lively during the summer season," Emerson remarked to Cherry, later in the day. "Yes; the ships arrive in May, and the fish begin to run in July.
Realization discounts anticipation about ninety per cent but don't let's talk about me. I I'm unstrung to-day." "I'm sorry you aren't going back to Kalvik," he said, with genuine regret. "But I am," she declared, quickly. "I'm going back with you and George if you will let me. I want to see the finish of our enterprise." "See here, Cherry, I hope you didn't influence Hilliard in this affair?"
There are fish enough for us all in the Kalvik, but that man has used the power of your organization to ruin me not for business reasons, but for personal spite. I have played the game squarely, Mr. Wayland, but unless this ceases I'm through." "You are through?" "Yes. The run is nearly a week old, and I haven't begun to pack my salmon.
But as matters stood, such tactics could only result in a serious loss to the brokers who had agreed to take Boyd's catch, and to the Trust itself. It was therefore necessary to work the young man's undoing here and now. Marsh knew that he had already wasted too much time in Kalvik, for he was needed at other points far to the southward; but he could not bear to leave this fight to other hands.
He was not entirely sure of the girl, and would not feel secure until the shores of Kalvik had sunk from sight and his rival had been left behind. But in spite of his uneasiness, it was the happiest moment of his life. If he had failed to ruin his enemy in the precise way he had planned, he was fairly satisfied with what he had accomplished.
She seated herself at the piano and struck a few idle notes, inquiring, casually: "Kalvik is the name of the place where you are going, isn't it?" "It is." "I suppose you will see a great deal of this Cherry Malotte?" "Undoubtedly, inasmuch as we are partners." "Partners!" Mildred ceased playing and swung about. "What do you mean?" "She is interested in this enterprise; the cannery site is hers."
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