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Updated: May 19, 2025
A shout of relief issued from the crowd when the teams drew in under the bank and Rock sat up, waving a mittened hand; the shout was quickly hushed as the lookers-on saw what sort of burden Joe McCaskey was driving. Up into the main street came the cavalcade. The crowd fell in alongside and ran with it to the Barracks, clamoring for details, pouring questions upon the returning travelers.
The man who stole it probably stole the other stuff." "They're two to one," Pierce told her. "They're trying to saw it off on me." The Countess turned and stared at the McCaskey brothers, who met her look defiantly. "Ban!" she exclaimed. "I haven't heard the evidence, for I was on my way to Dyea when Mr. " She glanced inquiringly at 'Poleon. He bowed again. "Doret," said he. "Napoleon Doret."
There were numerous freighters in Dyea, outfits with animals, too, some of them, but inquiry developed the fact that none were free to accept a contract of this size at such short notice, therefore Pierce went to the Indian village and asked for the chief. Failing to discover the old man, he began a tent-to-tent search, and while so engaged he stumbled upon Joe McCaskey.
Joe McCaskey was a man of nerve; he held himself erect; there was defiance in the gaze which he leveled at the faces below him. But his brother Jim was not made of such stern, stuff he was the meaner, the more cowardly of the pair and these methodical preparations, the certainty of his own forthcoming ordeal, bred in him a desperate panic.
That feller McCaskey and his brother." "McCaskey!" "He's an old pal of Anderson's." "Does Big Lars know he's a thief?" Jerry shrugged. "Lars ain't the kind that listens to scandal and we ain't the kind that carries it." Pierce meditated briefly; then he said, slowly, "If your lay turns out good so will McCaskey's." His frown deepened.
Well, I say you're a ! How d'you know he was there? How d'you know he didn't steal that rice before he left, for that matter?" "I know he was in Linderman because I was with him." "With him? All night?" The speaker grinned insultingly. "Yes, all night. I slept in the same tent with him and " "Now I've got your number," the younger McCaskey cried, in triumph. "Bah!"
As he opened the door of his room he received a surprise. Instead of the usual stove-lid or potato-masher for him to dodge, came only words. Mr. McCaskey reckoned that the benign May moon had softened the breast of his spouse. "I heard ye," came the oral substitutes for kitchenware.
Joe McCaskey accepted these attentions without a word of thanks, without a sign of gratitude. He appeared to be numbed, paralyzed, by the nervous shock he had undergone, and yet he was not paralyzed, for his eyes were intensely alive. They were wild, baleful; his roving glance was like poison to the men it fell upon.
"No, and they won't catch them, with fellows like that on the committee. The crooks hang together and we don't. If I had my way that's just what they'd do hang together. I'd start in by bending a limb over that rascal." Phillips had attended several of these indignation meetings and, remembering that all of them bad proved purposeless, he went on toward the McCaskey brothers' tent.
But when he entered the tent his greeting fell flat, for Joe, the elder McCaskey, addressed him sharply, almost accusingly: "Say, it's about time you showed up!" "What's the matter?" Pierce saw that the other brother was stretched out in his blankets and that his head was bandaged. "Hello!" he cried. "What ails Jim? Is he sick?" "Sick? Worse than sick," Joe grumbled.
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