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Updated: May 17, 2025
And continually the magnificent hills, hanging almost over the river, gave them glimpses of vegetation and objects new to them. "I'm glad I came," remarked Norman, "but I wonder how this country looks when winter comes." "You know how this river'll look," answered Roy.
If we rig up a craft, that river'll carry us to the bay! But she only gets down on the ground the way she did with you and puts my foot on her neck. Lordy," laughs Jack, "s'pose I don't know what a foot on a neck feels like? I sez: 'Miz, if you ever do that again, I'll throw you overboard! Then the backwash came so strong from the bay, we had to wait till the floods settled.
"Owl Hoot." "River'll stop it" "Yes." "Good." Prudence went on writing. "Iredale's ranch burnt out?" The girl started. "Don't know." "Must be." "Oh!" Then: "Here you are; and do you mind if I wait for an answer?" "Pleasure." And the man read the message "To Hervey Malling, Northern Union Hotel, Winnipeg. "Return at once. Money awaiting you. Willing to pay the price on your arrival.
I guess we can be thinking about hitting the trail for home pretty soon now. The river'll break up if this keeps going a week. Say, this is out uh sight! It's warmer out uh doors than it is in the house. Darn the old shack, anyway! I'm plumb sick uh the sight of it. It looked all right to me in a blizzard, but now it's me for the range, m'son."
"That means open water above," Daw explained. "Pretty soon she'll jam somewheres, an' the river'll raise a hundred feet in a hundred minutes. It's us for the tops if we can find a way to climb out. Come on! Hit her up I! An' just to think, the Yukon'll stick solid for weeks." Unusually narrow at this point, the great walls of the canyon were too precipitous to scale.
"There's things we can take a joy in remembering. But this isn't one of 'em. No. The thing for us now is work. Plenty of work. The mill needs to be in full work inside a week. We haven't an hour to lose, with young Birchall coming along over. Skert's promised us power in twenty-four hours. He's at it right now. The camps on the river'll be working full, and making up lost time.
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