The L'Anse sentinel. (L'Anse, L.S., Mich.) 18??-current, 1901-02-02

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l you lazy mans would desire me
vaire, no nevaire, will lazy mans my
hoosband be-"
Thus Joy Molineau spoke her mind
to Jack Harrington, even as she had
spoken it, but more tritely and in his
own tongue, to Louis Savoy the pre-
vious night.
"Listen, JOY"
mo, no; why moos' I listen to lazy
mans? 1t is vaire bad, you hang
rount, make visitation to my cabin
and do nothing. How you get grub
for the famille? Why haf not you the
dust? Odder mans hat plentee."
''But work hard, Joy. Never day
am / not on trail or up creek. Even
now have 1 just come off. My dogs
are yet tired. Other men have luck
and find plenty of gold; but II have
no luck"
"Ah! But when this mans with the
wife which is Indian, this mans Nc
Cormack, when him discovaire the
Klondike, you go not. Odder mans
go; odder mans now rich"
"You know j was prospecting over
on the headreaches of the Tanana,"
Harrington protested, 'and knew
nothing of the Eldorado or Bonanza
until it was too late"
"That is deterrent; only you are
what you call way Off"
"What?"
SWAY off. In the-yes-in the dark.
1t is nevaire too late. One vaire rich
mine is there, on the creek which is
Eldorado. The mans drive the stake
and him go way. No odder mans
know what of him become. The mans,
him which drive the stake, is nevaire
no more. Sixty days no mans on that
claim file the papaire. Then odder
mans, plentee odder mans-what you
call-iump that claim. Then they
race, o so queek, like the wind, to file
the papaire. Him be VARY rich. Him
get grub for famille."
Harrington hid the major portion of
his interest.
"When's the time up?" he asked.
"What claim is it?''
$50 speak Louis Savoy, last night"
she continued, ignoring him. Him I
think the winnaire."
"Hang Louis Savoy!"
$50 Louis Savoy speak in my cabin
last night. Him say, Joy, I am strong
mans. / hat good dogs. I have long
wind. / will be winnaire. Then you
will haf me for hoosband?' And say
to him, ] say"
"What'd you say?"
81 say, If Louis Savoy is winnaire,
then will he haf me for wife"
".And if he don't VIM"
"Then Louis Savoy, him will not be
what you call-the father of my
children"
"And if I VIM"
"You winnaire? Ha! ha! Nevaire!"
EXasperating as it was, Joy Molin-
eau's laughter was pretty to hear.
Harrington did not mind it. He had
long since been broken in. Besides,
he was no exception. She had forced
all her lovers to suffer in kind.
Her sled dogs clustered about
her in hirsute masses, and the lead
err, Wolf Fang, laid his long snout
softly in her lap.
IF l do. VIM" Harrington pressed
She looked from dog to lover and
back again.
what you say, Wolf Fang? If him
strong mans and file the papaire,
shall we his wife become? Eth? What
you say?"
Wolf Fang picked up his ears and
growled at Harrington.
= 4 4 4
added with feminine irrelevance, ris.
ing to her feet and strengthening out
the team.
Her lover looked on stolidly. She
had kept him guessing from the first
time they met, and patience had been
joined unto his virtues.
'IIi! Wolf Fang!" she cried spring
ing upon the sled as it leaped into
sudden motion. "Ai! va! Mush-on!'
From the corner of his eye Harring.
ton watched her swinging down the
trail to Forty Mile. Where the road
forked and crossed the river to Fort
Cudahy, she halted the dogs and
turned about.
80 Mistaire Lazy Mans!" she called
back. "Wolf Fang him say yes-ii
you winnaire!"
But somehow, as such things will
1t leaked out, and all Forty Mile, which
had hitherto specialized on JOY Molin.
eau's choice between her two latest
lovers, now hazarded bets and guesses
as to which would win in the forth
coming race. The camp divided itself
into two factions, and every effort
was put forth in order that their re
spective favorites might be the first
in at the finish. There was scramble
for the best dogs the country could
afford, for dogs, and good ones, were
essential above all to success. And II
meant much to the victor. Beside,
the possession of wife, the like Of
which had yet to be created, 1t stood
for a mine worth n million at least.
That fall, when news came down Of
McCormack's discovery on Bonanza
all the Lower Country, Circle City
and Forty Mile included, had STAN
peded up the Yukon-at least all save
those who, like Jack Harrington ant
Louis Savoy, were away prospecting