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Updated: June 5, 2025
Had the Government permitted the Kyak coal-fields to be opened up, the lower reaches of the S. R. & N. would have had a value, but all activity in that region had been throttled, and the policy of delay and indecision at headquarters promised no relief.
Of all those who suffered by the storm Curtis Gordon took his misfortune hardest. This had been a black season for him, indeed. Beginning with O'Neil's rivalry, everything had gone against him. He had dropped his coal interests at Kyak in favor of the copper- mine, because they failed to yield quick profits.
"Then, badly off as we are here," says the Colonel to the Boy, "it's lucky for us we didn't join the procession." When Mac and the Boy brought the sled home a couple of days later, it was found that a portion of its cargo consisted of a toy kyak and two bottles of hootchino, the maddening drink concocted by the natives out of fermented dough and sugar.
A third brother started out determined if possible, to make a more thorough investigation, but disappeared the same as the others. He was bowed down with grief at the great loss he had sustained, but it remained for him to solve the mystery. He went out in his kyak and had not proceeded far from shore when his attention was attracted by what appeared to be a whale in the distance.
First the Heidlemanns were thieves and grafters and looters of the public domain; now they have become assassins! If this route to the interior proves feasible, well and good; if not, we'll resume work at Cortez next spring. Kyak, of course, is out of the question." "This route depends upon the bridge." "Exactly." "It's a two years' job."
When we reached the north end of the small island Mollie ran up the path like a deer, I following, as did the natives, leaving the dogs to rest upon the ice. From a hole in the rocks Koki now hauled his kyak or small skin boat, where he had left it from a former trip, and dragging it down upon the ice, he lashed it upon the small sled to be carried still farther.
He paused, ashamed of his outburst, and, taking the girl's hand in his, went stumbling ahead of the storm. Their limbs were cramped, their teeth chattered, they wallowed through mire, and more than once they fell. Nearing Trevor's house, they saw what the storm had done. Kyak was nearly razed. Roofs had been ripped off, chimneys were down, glass was out.
I knew he was crooked but I couldn't believe " "Sit down!" said O'Neil. "He won't pull himself together for a while, and I want to get to bed. Are you looking for a job?" The engineer's eyes opened wide. "Yes." "Do you know the Kyak country?" "Pretty well." "I need a surveyor. Your wages will be the same that Gordon paid and they begin now, if it's agreeable." "It certainly is!" "Good!
By purchasing for a song the McDermott rights at Kyak he had placed himself in position to share in the benefits of the Heidlemann breakwater, and by rapidly pushing his tracks ahead he made his rivalry seem formidable. As a means of attack upon O'Neil he adopted a procedure common in railroad-building.
"You will stop here on our way back to Kyak, and I'll warrant you'll be glad to see the place by that time." "You built this just for us," Eliza said, accusingly. "Yes. But it didn't take long. I 'phoned this morning that you were coming." He ran a critical eye over the place to see that its equipment was complete, then drew out their chairs for them.
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