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Updated: May 5, 2025
"For my part," admitted the Boy, "I'm less grand than I was. I meant to make some poor devil dig out my Minóok gold for me. It'll be the other way about: I'll dig gold for any man on Bonanza that'll pay me wages." They sat slapping at the mosquitoes till a whistle screamed on the Lower River. The Boy called to Nig, and went down to the town to hear the news.
Each member of the camp sat deeply cogitating. Not only gold at Minóok, but food! In the inner vision of every eye was a ship-load of provisions "frozen in" hard by a placer claim; in every heart a fervid prayer for a dog-team. The Boy jumped up, and ran his fingers through his long wild hair. He panted softly like a hound straining at a leash.
On the 9th of May, Minoók went to bed in winter, and woke to find the snow almost gone under the last nineteen hours of hot, unwinking sunshine, and the first geese winging their way up the valley sight to stir men's hearts. Stranger still, the eight months' Arctic silence broken suddenly by a thousand voices.
The Colonel and the Boy made good speed to Novikakat, laid in supplies at Korkorines, heard the first doubtful account of Minóok at Tanana, and pushed on.
All the claim-holders registered their properties and the dates of location. The Recorder gave everybody his receipt, and everybody felt it was cheap at five dollars. Not until Glory Hallelujah Gulch was a full-fledged mining district did Minóok in general know what was in the wind. The next day the news was all over camp. Nobody added that it was also the only one.
But they were nearly back at Minóok before McGinty said, "Well, I ain't twins, and I can't personally work two gold-mines, so we'll call it a deal." And the money passed that night. And the word passed, too, to an ex-Governor of a Western State and his satellites, newly arrived from Woodworth, and to a party of men just down from Circle City.
As she stood there, with her fists full of gold, Maudie's eyes filled. She turned abruptly and went out. The crowd began to melt away. In half an hour only those remained who had more hootch than they could carry off the premises. They made themselves comfortable on the floor, near the stove, and the greatest night Minóok had known was ended. "Leiden oder triumphiren Hammer oder Amboss sein."
Then, with recovered serenity, he turned to the Boy: "I promised I'd bring back any news." "Yes." "Well?" Everybody stopped eating and hung on the priest's words. "Captain Rainey's heard there's a big new strike " "In the Klondyke?" "On the American side this time." "Hail Columbia!" "Whereabouts?" "At a place called Minook." "Where's that?" "Up the river by the Ramparts." "How far?"
That a thief should be "operating" in Minoók on somebody who wasn't dead yet, was a matter that came home to the business and the bosoms of all the men in the camp. In the midst of the babel of speculation and excitement, Maudie, still crying and talking incoherently about skunks, opened the door. The men crowded after her.
The cheechalkos consulted. When the business was ended, Minóok self-control gave way. The cheechalkos found themselves the laughing-stock of the town.
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