ultra-cream

Updated: May 10, 2025

And here Smoke met the social elect of Dawson not the mere pick-handle millionaires, but the ultra-cream of a mining city whose population had been recruited from all the world men like Warburton Jones, the explorer and writer, Captain Consadine of the Mounted Police, Haskell, Gold Commissioner of the North-West Territory, and Baron Von Schroeder, an emperor's favourite with an international duelling reputation.

Jack London - Smoke Bellew

And here Smoke met the social elect of Dawson not the mere pick-handle millionaires, but the ultra-cream of a mining city whose population had been recruited from all the world men like Warburton Jones, the explorer and writer; Captain Consadine of the Mounted Police; Haskell, Gold Commissioner of the Northwest Territory; and Baron Von Schroeder, an emperor's favourite with an international duelling reputation.

Jack London - Smoke Bellew