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But in the Kootenay I traveled a bad trail, and a long trail, with a breed of the Northwest, who saw fit to die when the famine pinched. He had been to the Yukon by an unknown way over the mountains, and when he knew his time was near gave me the map and the secret of a place where he swore by his gods there was much gold. 'After that all the world began to flock into the north.
I would be an awful cad if I did. But well, you know as well as I do that, good soul as Mandy is, she is in many ways impossible." "Do I?" Again the joyous laugh pealed out. "Well, well, come back and see." And waving her hand she stood to watch them down the trail. "Jolly little girl," said the Inspector, as they turned from the railway tote road down the coulee into the Kootenay trail.
Then came the cry of "Kootenay Gold" ringing throughout Canada of the untold wealth of Kootenay mines. Like thousands of others he followed the beckoning of that yellow finger, taking his young wife and baby daughter West with him. The little town of Nelson, crouching on its beautiful hills, its feet laved by the waters of Kootenay Lake, was then in its first robust, active infancy.
It was in the Kootenay country British Columbia, you know. Bunch of sharpers set about to rook me on a frame-up a bunco game. Tom tipped me off, though I had snubbed him, like the egregious ass I was. I paid no heed; blundered into the trap. Wouldn't have minded losing the thousand pounds they wanted, but they brought a woman into the affair made it appear as if I were a cad or worse."
"What is his history? And where does he come from?" "London's my home," said the stranger, answering Cameron's mental queries. "Name, Raven Richard Colebrooke Raven Dick for short; rancher, horse and cattle trader; East Kootenay; at present running in a stock of goods and horses; and caught like yourself in this beastly blizzard."
And you tell me you've been in the Kootenay! Well, well, you have seen a good bit more of the world than I ever have. You've changed a lot, Ben. You ain't a boy no longer. D'ye mind all the pranks you used to play?" Ben laughed sheepishly. "I reckon I do. But it ain't myself I come here to talk about not much to say if I did. It's just been up and down with me. How are you yourself, sir?
I was in the Kootenay when he lost his arm, torn out all bloody right from the shoulder socket; had to pry the cogs up to get him out. They collected a purse of a thousand for him; but he wouldn't take a cent: handed it over to the hospital. Something in that fellow bigger than self kind of popped out and surprised himself."
We talk mistily of Cause and Effect, but who drops the Cause that turns the Wheel? Who of us that witnessed the crazy gold stampede to Kootenay and the crazier stampede to Klondike could guess that the backwash of those foolish tidal waves of gold-mad humanity would people the Northwest? Why, we were mad with alarm over the gold stampede!
"It was somewhere here that Raven fell in with you?" "No, some ten miles off the line, down the old Kootenay trail." "Aha!" said the Inspector. "It might not be a bad idea to beat up that same old trail. It is quite possible that we might fall in with your old friends." "It would certainly be a great pleasure," replied Cameron, "to conduct Mr.
I could do it but I reckon I'd be a blamed fool. I ain't a-going to do it. Three thousand ain't picked up every day, even in the Kootenay 'specially by chaps like me." He patted his pocket knowingly. Fifteen years previously he had gone to the Kootenay district with visions of making a fortune that were quickly dispelled by reality.
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