The Columbia herald. [volume] (Columbia, Tenn.) 18??-1935, 1908-01-17
CHAPTER l.

light lights &C Of - anchored tsa srs0s shp<i
mountains, black against the sky he
drank the cool air burdened with It's
iaints OK the sea, while the blood or
his boy hood leaped within him.
"Oh, it's fine fne,' he nulmured'
land this is my country my country.
after ali, Dex. It's In my veins, this
hunger for the north. grow. ex'
pAnd"
Careful you don't bust" warned
Dextry. "I'vc seen men get plumb
drunk on mountain air. Don't expand
too strong In one spot" He went
beet abruptly to his pipe, its Villain
COS fumes promptly averting any
danger OF the airs too tonic quality.
"Gad. what a smudge" shifted the
vo,,nger man. "You ought to be in
quarantine"
..T'd ruther smell like man than
talk like kid You desecrate the
hour Of meditation with rhapsodles on
nature when your aesthetics am
boued up to the beauties of good To-
bacco."
The other laughed. innating his deep
chest In the gloom he stretcheu ms
muscles restiessly, as though an eN-
cess Of vigor filled him
They were lounging upon the DOCK
while before them lay the SANTA
Maria ready for her midnight sailing
Behind slept Unalaska quaint ans
tiuue and Russian, resting amid tne
fogs Of Bering sea. Where week
before mild eyed natives had DRIED
their cod among the old bronze can
non now frenzied horde OF Soid
seekers paused In their rush to Tue
new FL Dorado. They had come IKE
n locust cloud. thousands strong SET
fling on tho edge of the Smoky sea-
waiting the going of the ice lhat
barred them from their golden neece
from Nome the new, where men
foun, fortune in night.
IN, messy hills back Of the village
were lidged with graves of those who
had died on the out trip the ran pc
fore. when plague had grippeu the
land hut what of that? Gold gHttered
in the sands, so said the SURVIVORS.
Therefore men came IN armies. Glen
ister and Dextry had left Nome the
autumn previous, the young man raw
Ing with fever. Now they returned 10
their own land
..rhis air whets every animal instinct
m me" Glenister broke ont again.
away from the cities | turn savage
feel the old primitive passions, the
fret for lighting
"Mebbe you'll have chance
How SOP"
"Weu. IT'S this way. ] met Mexico
Mullins this mornln You mind old
Mexico. don't you--the Teller THAI re
located Discovery claim on Anvil
creek last summer
you don't mean that 'tinhorn' the
boys were going to lynch for clam
Jumping"
identical! Remember me tellin you
about good turn done MN once
down Guadalupe wayT
"Greaser shooting scrape. WASH lti
Yep. Well | noticed first off that
he's gettin' fat high Twin fat too, all
I'm q IS, spot. like be was playin' both
ends agin the center Also he wore
drmon's at to handle with Ice tongs,
Says l, lookin' at his side elevation
What's accented your middle syllable
SO strong. MeIlcor
Prosperity, politics an the Wal
dorf- Astorier.' says he. 1t seems Mex
hadn't forgot old days He claws me
into corner an says, 'Bill, I'm goin
to pay you back for that Moralez deal.
"Tt amt comm TO me- says ],
That's q bygone.'
Listen here says be, an. seem ne
was in earnest let him run ON.
How much do yon value that clsim
o. yourn atr
Hard tellin',' says |. If she holds
out like she run last fall, there'd ought
to lie million clear In her
How much n you clean up this
SUMMER
'BOut -four hundred thousand. with
ink
Pill, says he, thew's hell apop
pin an You've got IN watch that
ground like you'd watch rattlesnake