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Updated: May 9, 2025
"You weren't worried, were you?" she asked. "Worried? About a Welse? Who? Me? Not on your life. I was too busy tellin' Crater Lake what I thought of it. I don't like the water. I told you so. And it's always playin' me scurvy not that I'm afraid of it, though." "Hey, you Pete!" turning to the Indians. "Hit 'er up! Got to make Linderman by noon!" "Frona Welse?"
Everybody want to go boat. Everybody say, 'Charley, two hundred dollars you take me in canoe, 'Charley, three hundred dollars, 'Charley, four hundred dollars. I say no, all the time I say no. I am letter carrier. "In morning I get to Lake Linderman. I walk all night and am much tired. I cook breakfast, I eat, then I sleep on the beach three hours. I wake up. It is ten o'clock. Snow is falling.
"If we aren't storm-bound at the summit we'll make Dyea to-morrow night, and if we have luck in catching a steamer we'll be in San Francisco in a week." "Enjoyed your vacation?" Kit asked absently. Their camp for that last night at Linderman was a melancholy remnant. Everything of use, including the tent, had been taken by the cousins.
Between Linderman and Lake Bennet was a portage. The boat, lightly loaded, was lined down the small but violent connecting stream, and here Kit learned a vast deal more about boats and water. But when it came to packing the outfit, Stine and Sprague disappeared, and their men spent two days of back-breaking toil in getting the outfit across.
It was a large skiff, built of rough pine planks that had been sawed by hand from the standing timber of Lake Linderman, a few hundred miles above, at the foot of Chilcoot. In the boat were a pair of oars and Arizona Jack's blankets. Leclaire brought the grub, tied up in a flour-sack, and put it on board. As he did so, he whispered "I gave you good measure, Jack. You done it with provocation."
We'll toss up for ends. We'll divide everything the same way, down to the skillet." "Every blame' thing," Linton agreed. Side by side they set off heavily through the woods. Quarrels similar to this were of daily occurrence on the trail, but especially common were they here at Linderman, for of all the devices of the devil the one most trying to human patience is a whip-saw.
Linderman scrutinized Scattergood intently and nodded his head. "And you want me " "Put up the money. Git the stock. Lemme handle it. Gimme twenty per cent." "In stock?" "Calc'late so." "Baines," said Linderman, "I'll go you. Crane and Keith are due for a lesson." "Ready now?" "Yes." "G'-by, Mr. Linderman. Have money when I want it. G'-by."
"Oh, they are real hummers, your boss and mine, when it comes to sheddin' the mazuma an' never mindin' other folks' feelin's. What did they do when they hit Linderman? The carpenters was just putting in the last licks on a boat they'd contracted to a 'Frisco bunch for six hundred. Sprague and Stine slipped 'em an even thousand, and they jumped their contract.
Capturing a bunch of Indians back-tripping from Lake Linderman, he persuaded them to put their straps on the outfit. They charged thirty cents a pound to carry it to the summit of Chilcoot, and it nearly broke him. As it was, some four hundred pounds of clothes-bags and camp outfit was not handled. He remained behind to move it along, dispatching Kit with the Indians.
With his horse, his dog, and a sandwich, but never a gun, he would make long excursions down toward Lake Linderman, to Bennett, or over Atlin way. When the country became too rough for the horse, he would be left picketed near a stream with a faithful dog to look after him while the pathfinder climbed up among the eagles. In the meantime Foy kept pounding away.
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