Then he took to the woods again. Hope he don't come back. Started amuck this morning, but didn't get very far. Ran foul of Sitka Charley's team, and they scattered him all over the street. The incident was repeated for his benefit, and Malemute Kid, accustomed to an obedience which his fellow men never failed to render, took charge of the affair.
Life's a game and men the gamblers.
They'll stake their whole pile on the one chance in a thousand. We'll establish a precedent which will last the men of Forty-Mile to the end of time,' he prophesied. Twa'n't called for,' he reiterated again and again, pacing up and down and waiting for Lon McFane. Then, father,' he cried, 'it's with an aisy heart I'll roll in me flamy blankets, the broad of me back on a bed of coals. An' I'll not ask a blessin'.