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41 Lure O Gold 1904

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BACK TO THE GOLDEN NORTH<br />

I PULLED ashore alongside a big lumber lighter<br />

which made a breakwater for me, else I might have had<br />

great difficulty in landing.<br />

ice-cold water over my knees.<br />

As it was, I had to wade in<br />

So, in drenched disgust<br />

and with my thoughts melting dizzily into each other,<br />

I hastened to the board shanty in which dwelt Gus<br />

Clarke, the chairman of the Committee of Safety,<br />

which was at that time all the rough camp afforded in<br />

the way of public officers for the detection and punish<br />

ment of crime, unless one counted the detachment of<br />

soldiers who idled about the place.<br />

Gus Clarke s cabin was dark and he was sound<br />

asleep when I knocked harshly and with intense anxi<br />

ety, arousing him and all his dogs, which made a tre<br />

mendous fuss just inside the door. Soon I saw a light<br />

through the little window and heard the voice of Clarke,<br />

whom I knew very well, cursing and quieting the dogs.<br />

But the brutes set<br />

up<br />

such another hubbub when the<br />

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