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SYNOPSIS?On the old sidewheeler
George E. Stair, on its way
to the Yukon gold fields in the first
rush of "97. Speed Maline, experienced
?rold-eaniD follower and earn
bier, and young Ed Mai Hand, on his
first trip, trying to recoup his lost !
family fortune, struck up a strange
friendship. Mail land left Speed playing
Solo witli two other men and
wandered forward, to be sharply recalled
by the report of a pistol and
the news that his partner had been
shot and had gone overboard. Ed .
jumped in after him, without second
thought. But the cold waters
got him, and in the end it was Speed
who did the rescuing, holding Ed's
heacl above water until they were
taken aboard a little boat by a fisherman
from Seattle. The big ship ;
went on without them. Now go on J
with the story:
THIRD INSTALMENT
Frer.chy raised his eyes, folded his
arms, unfolded them and burst into
a geyser of language which, if the
activity of his anus signified anything,
was far from pious.
When the torrent subsided. Speed j
grinned. He drew from his pocket five
double-eagles, and dropped them 011
the table. "There's a hundred dollars
belonging to me and my pardner. Now i
what does T up and do but gamble!
this yer hundred''?he stacked the I
live goiu pieces in a. neat cuiuiun
"that you're takin* us north to the)
camp of Skagway, Alaska."
But the fisherman began another
outburst in his native tongue.
With no sign of impatience, the
gambler pulled out a short-barreled
.15 Colt, broke it open, clicked it back
and set it on the table.
"I don't savvy your lingo. Frenchy." j
he said equably, "but this baby com-;
prelvends every knovved diaiec' and she;
CpCMhC I n1nyn hwL.th.JCnn- I
per my bet."
Tne Frenchman's eyes blazed. Lun-j
ging sideways he reached for the knife
that was stuck in the cabin wall. But I
before his fingers touched the haft,
the gun roared and the knife clattered
lu the floor. In a curling haze
of smoke the fisherman backed to
the companion, while Speed carefully1
examined the bore of his revolver
against, the iighL and blow some smoke
from it.
"Mebhy yon can translate that,"
he sugegstcd. "Reckon the salt water!
ain't spoiled her accent none."
Though lorn by the struggle and|
perspiring, Frenchy made a labored I
refusal. Too far." he mumbled. "11
lose ze fish."
Speed begun U> rake m the scat- [
lered coins, leaving out three fives, j
'All right." he said pleasantly There
are fifteen, if you land u.s near a mau j
with a boat who ain't got weak knees j
Band head both. We'll take some other j
ir>y fisherman to the Vukon. To the gold-i
r-.\ vrtfisv " An. 1 li?i Un>nt?o,i
^vluch that phrase recalled to hi...
Gala 7" echoed Frenchy.
"Sticky with it." The gambier d?S!
lacued a damp cigarette paper, and .;
ho.came engrossed in the delicate task,
sjjgBSSs sB9 To-,
~oiu' tll?ire ?"
"Goiii" there!" Speed had a lock of
having beer: asked an outlandish
question. "Does the stiff live, Frenchy,
par.nin' an ounce of sense to the ton.
who'd work out a life term for a stake:
he could dig up in a week ? Xot even
you, if you kiiowed the layout. Take |
this range of yourn a tough one to i
rivW. I should reckon, with the storms
and fog, broken lines, raw fingers and 1
busied hones. And when you cash in!
what's the figure? Frcnchy's pickled:
carcass robbir. up ana aown the dirty;
water of some cove, and the. Susette
a smashed tuhful of mud and seaweed
on a stack of rocks."
Frenchy nodded sadly.
Speed, who had been watching
Frenchy with a speculative eye, gave
all the money before him a sudden
brusque shove to the center of the
table. "It's yourn!" he said.
With an impulsive grab, the fisherman
clawed it toward him.
The gambler lit his cigarette and
spoke tr ^tland through a la?v vapor
of si.
"Umvina . TJic\ Judge. Is it
legal?"
Maitiand had been considering the
proposition as it took shape. The
chart in the cabin was sketchy, but
he had sailed hmken coasts before
with less to go b3' He liked the feci
of the boat. Anything seemed better
turning oacK. ine fisherman was!
being well paid.
"I can't pay my share," he began.
"Sink me, Bud." protested the Westerner,
"if you aint' as unexpected as
a parsons' mule. The money was won
on your stake, and half of its' yourn.
Also, you're the deep-sea shark. Boats
is a branch of knowledge I'm free of,
and I don't figure Frenchy for no
oceanic scout. So we'll owe you for
gettin' us there.
The boy pulled on his clothes and
went out to look at the Susette. She
proved to be a strong, deep-keeled
boat with the remains of a cutter's
rigging, and a look of having known
better things before Frenchy turned
her into a smack.
* *
Having had to overstay several
watches, Maitland was glad when he
found the open sea at Dixon's En
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trance, and was able to shove the tilI
ler into Krencliy's unwilling hands and
; go below.
He ate a mulligan Speed had comj
piled from the *'tailinrs" of the pre|
vious meal, and tumbled into the bunP:
| for a sleep. Awakened hours later
j by a thud of running seas, he had
j just caught a drowsy glimpse of his
jdorymate playing solitaire with Frcn!
chy's cards under the swinging cabin
lamp, when a sudden lurch sent chair
and player- sprawling.
"PiUphill' cayuses!" the gambler
mumbled ruefully. "Am I goln' to
lidc tills critter before we hit skagway
?"
Mention of Skagway reminded
Maitlanri of a question he had wondered
about. "Why do you choose
{hat camp instead of Dyea?" he
asked.
The other rearranged his cards
with some care. "They's r.o call for
a covered play between you and mc,
Bud. It don't suit my hand to meet
the George E. Starr or her passengers
till they have time to forget where
iucj omi rnv uwi invrv a nu wuvo
to beat in the North, and gettin"
passed up for drowned is a good alibi."
That Speed had had a serious tangle
with the law before boarding the
ship Miiiliand already suspected. He
how saw that the security of the
strange alibi lay in his own hands.
Little as the fact appealed to him,
he appreciated the other's confidence
that he would not betray it. "I was
wondering," he said, "whether the
White Pass from Skagway is a better
trail."
' It's a horse trail. Where there's
horses the pay is :eltei\ My special
reason for choosin* it " the Westerner's
face hardened a little "is that
a man I'm Icokin' for is liable to
choose that route. . . . What's your
plan in makin' for Dyea?"
"i tnougnt i mignt get a long-snore
job of some kind till 1 earned an outfit.
'
"You can do better. If you tied in
with a horse outfit on the White
Pass, they might pay for help and
throw in the grub."
"But tools." Maitland objected
The gambler's mouth twisted humorously,
as lie studied a card. "If
you mean picks and shovels, Bud, the
hist'ry of pcrspectin' learns us thov's
mighty little satisfaction in a shovel,
and none at all in a pick. You can
pick them up anywhere off the landscape."
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From the chart in the cabin Mait
land discovered that they were nortl
of the fifty-fifth latitude and actual!]
in Alaska, though the map did no
mark the lower boundary of that lonj
strip of coastal islands called thi
"Penhandle.
Through one of these channel
Maitland turned a course west of Za
rembo Island into a long sea gorge
which proved to be easily navigable
When fish had followed fish as ai
[ unvaried menu for days, the idea o
fish became more sinister *han hun
ger. even to Frenchy.
The cliff shadows had melted int<
. the glamour and mist c>f a wide
. channel when they heard the fain
I whine of a steamer's siren, passing
. southward by another course. I
' sounded queerly, in that solitude, i
tar echo of the world w.th which thej
. had lost contact.
Speed wound in his hue. "Ilow't
you come to choose this route, Bud?'
he asked.
"It isn't a course the steamers
would take." Maitland answered aftci
i a pause. "I thought, if the George
K. Starr were to pass us in the narrows.
going back, someone might gel
the Idea you weren't drowned."
The reflection of a wave to which
they were rising illumined the other's
j face, but left his eyes obscured'That's
!a long way to go for a strange," he
1 said.
| Maitland shook his head. The word
{ stranger" hardly applies to a mar
;with whom one has beer, drowned
and brought alive again. "I was just
thinking as we came up the gulf," he
csici, rauier Hesitantly, "of now we
j started this trip together. It's a fresh
start for both of us. in a way. Why
couldn't we see it through as partners
?"
The gambler twisted the line in his
1 hands. "It says a whole Jot to me,
Bud. I've always wanted to square
you for that lost outfit., and I coulc
steer you some in the gold camps
But as for pardners you don't know
who T am."
"Forget about the outfit. And the
other trouble, too. It's a new deal
i isn't it?"
"Meanin' ?"
"If you 11 agree to respect the law
i while we're partners, your word's
1 IVAA^l ... .
The flaw in his proposition appear
i ?\i to Maitland during the silence thai
j followed. While Speed might have lef 1
| his record behind him, he had conn
north with a purpose lie wasn't likelj
i to forget The Westerner's reply, how
ever, took an unexpected form.
"Suppose I coppered against f
forced lay by pay in' I'd pull out am
; leave you clear if I had to tangl<
with the law. Would that go?"
He looked up with a misty questioi
in his eyes, and two brown hand;
| locked on the bargain.
From the > uter waters of the. I,.y;v.
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; Canal, a great marine corridor con
i traded toward their destination. V'as
; ; walls of rock loomed on either sid<
to heights of a thousand feet or more
j! sheer out of the sea, casting a half
I ! mile shadow into the gulf. On ledger
; of these canyon faces, spruce ant
jackpines perched like window shrubs
Above them, in the upper air, snow
. crowned peaks glistened with a molt
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j ing shadows at their base, gigantii
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. ground swell.
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. . shadow of these ramparts, late cm
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> i ing the mists that hung like web
r! between the canyon heads, and daz
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\ streams which cascaded into th
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gorge a sudden echo among the shon
1 rocks set the travelers" ears tingling
5 and shortly afterwards they emerge*
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i; which a cargo streamer lay at an
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chor. some two hundred yards fromj
shore. j
The landing beach shone gold in
the sunlight, shelving steeply downj
from graveled flats, where a river
canyon opened its broad delta on the!
! gulf. Gray teats, scattered along the!
I flats, and the snowy crest of a bald i
peak, which glittered high above the i
canyon marked it as the outlet of the i
Skagway River and tlie base camp of ;
; the White Pass.
' Landin' horses," said Speed. The
heads of the swimming animals bob-}
\ bed at several points between the ship
| and the surf.
As they drew nearer, a gaudy pinj
to f lashed into the air and took wa- j
| ter in a smother of diamonds,
i The bronco swam off?;ot toward
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shore, however, but In blind panic
down the 'gulf.
Might buy us a feed if we round
up this cayuse," Speed suggested.
"See if you can turn him, Bud."
Cutting across the runaway's seaward
course, ifaitland skilfully
matched the frightened zigzags with
which it tried to evade the approaching
sail, till they could see its opalblue
eye. flaming with terror. As the
boat came close, a ope sang from
the Westerner's hand, neatly ringing
the pinto's head. To avoid dragging
its nose under water. Speed played
ji;t ms unc. ine musette luncci a little
heavy for such delicate handling-,
and a few inches late in bringing to.
Rather than release the line, Speed
jumped in after it.
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