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Then on, into the northeast, past Koyokuk, Tanana, and Minook, till they rounded the Great Curve at Fort Yukon, crossed and recrossed the Arctic Circle, and headed south through the Flats. It was a weary journey, and Fortune would have wondered why the man went with him, had not Uri told him that he owned claims and had men working at Eagle.
Eve the less inflammable muttered darkly that it was all up with Minoók, if a person couldn't go on a stampede without havin' his dust took out of his cabin. The crowd was pressing Charlie, and twenty cross-questions were asked him in a minute. He, beside himself with rage, or fear, or both, lost all power except to curse. The Judge seemed to be taking down damning evidence on the dirty envelope.
It was a good many days before they got the dazzle of that gold out of their eyes. They found their tongues again, and talked "Minóok" from morning till night among themselves and with the rare passer up or down the trail. Mac began to think they might get dogs at Anvik, or at one of the Ingalik villages, a little further on. The balance of opinion in the camp was against this view.
When he opened them again late in the evening it was to say: "Found some o' those suckers who were goin' so slick to Minóok; some o' them down at the second village, and the rest are winterin' in Anvik, so the Indians say. Not a single son of a gun will see the diggins till the ice goes out."
The chief magistrate was already a familiar figure, standing on his dump at Little Minóok, speculatively chewing and discussing "glayshal action," but most of the time at the Gold Nugget, chewing still, and discussing more guardedly the action some Minóok man was threatening to bring against another. You may treat a glacier cavalierly, but Miners' Law is a serious matter.
In the absence of men and markets a pit full of gold is worth no more than a pit full of clay." "Oh, yes; I admit, till the boats come in, we're poor men." "Nobody will stop here this summer they'll all be racing on to Dawson." "Dawson's 'It, beyond a doubt." The Colonel laughed a little ruefully. "We used to say Minóok." "I said Minóok, just to sound reasonable, but, of course, I meant Dawson."
"Because the A. C. and N. A. T. and T. boats got frozen in this side of Dawson. They know by the time they get there in June a lot of stuff will have come in by the short route through the lakes, and the town will be overstocked. So there's flour and bacon to burn when you get up as far as Minóok. It's only along the Lower River there's any real scarcity."
"Looks like I'll be the only person left in Minóok." "I don't imagine you'll be quite alone." "No? Why, there's only between five and six hundred expectin' to board a boat that'll be crowded before she gets here." "Does everybody want to go to Dawson?" "Everybody except a few boomers who mean to stay long enough to play off their misery on someone else before they move on."
"Minoók doesn't mind arbitrating," says Keith low to the Colonel, "but there isn't a man in camp that would give five cents for the interest of the heirs of Lawrence in that fifteen hundred dollars." A hammering on the clerk's little table announced that it was seven p.m. The Court then called for the complaint filed by McGinty v. Bonsor, the first case on the docket.
The last men to reach Minoók were two who had made a hunting and prospecting trip to an outlying district. They had gone there in six days, and were nineteen in returning. The slush was waist-deep in the gulches. On the benches, in the snow, holes appeared, as though red-hot stones had been thrown upon the surface.
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