Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-30
was silent for time.
81 suppose they really think they
own those mines"

was silent for time.
II suppose they really think they
own those mines"
Undoubtedly.
But they don't, do they?" Somehow
this question had REQUIRED to her In
7 sistently OF late. for things were con-
stantly happening which showed there
was more back OF this great, fierce
struggle than she knew. 1t was impos-
sible that injustice had been done the
mine owners, and yet scattered talk
reached her which was puzzling
When she strove to follow 1t up, her
acquaintances adroitly changed the
subject. She was baffled on every
side. The three local newspapers up
held the court. She read them care
fully and was more Mt sea than ever
There was a disturbing undercurrent
Of alarm and unrest that caused her to
feel Insecure. as though standing on
hollow ground.
Eyes, this whole disturbance Is caus
cd by those two Only for them we'd
be all right"
'sWho is Miss Malotte?"
He answered promptly. THE hand
,omest woman In the north and the
most dangerous"
"1n what way? Who is sheT'
"Its hare to say who or what she
Is. She's different from other women
She came to Dawson In the early days
Just cane--ve didn't know how,
whence or why, and we never found
out. We woke up one morning, and
there she was BY night we were all
Jealous, and in week we were most
Of us driveling idiots. 1t might have
been the mystery or perhaps the COM
petition That was the day when a
dance hall girl could make home
| stake In q winter or marry million
aire in month, but she never bother
ed. She tolled not neither did she spin
on the waxed floors, yet Solomon In all
his glory would have looked like q
tramp beside her"
"You say she Is dangerous?
"Well, there was young nobleman,
in the winter Of '9S, Dane, I think
fine family and all that--blg yellow
haired boy. He wanted to marry her,
but faro dealer shot him. Then there
was Rock of the mounted police, the
| finest officer in the service. He was
cashiered. She knew he was going to
pot for her, but she didn't seem to
care--and there were others. Yet. with
1t all, she is the most generous person
and the most tender hearted. Why,
she has fed every stew bum on the
| Yukon, and there isn't q busted pros
pectOr In the country who wouldn't
swear by her. for she has grubstaked
dozens Of them. I was horribly in love
with her myself Yes, she's dangerous
/, all rlght--to everybody but Glenister."
"What do you mean"
"She had been across the Yukon to
nurse man with scurvy, and coming
back she was caught In the spring
breakup wasn't there, but 1t seems
this Glenister got her ashore somehow
when nobody else would tackle the job.
| They were carried five miles down
stream in the ice pack before he sue
! ceeded"
"What happened then?"
"She fell in love with him, of course"
"And he worshiped her as madly as
all the rest of you, suppose" she said
scornfully.
"That's the peculiar part. She hyp-
Noticed him at first, but he ran away,
and l didn't hear Of him again till I
came to Nome She followed him final
| lv and Ia at week eyened I'D her score.
She paid him back for saving her"
81 haven't heard about it."
| He do+ni,ns1 tho story Of the gam