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kay joyce cried there ivr tep Matlon tion in her voice annie ler ber ud denly seething ka babal I 1 gave it to em levs lets see if i got the same amount of i iles hi its not fair it was what I 1 dy to uva live on why uriel fled hicso he could look me be dont you see she ehe mi bakly any 1 what in the world will be i d me as kroull kyo h ull live said annie ithe to transfer recorded ham 1 iskel fd a annie amile pawed for a alga k 1 I thought look bigger it if I 1 em to do that ono one ot of em HOVD down to the office as toon soon as kachad iett had been put up again shrugged his 1 is teats the end of 0 IV it 1 i I fired its not the end of it she liars my right to do ill I 1 bt mine if I 1 have ill 91 i A minute baby said ana dame uko ilke you aint going thing away from the fron MM knes not with a jury of min ahil to tte the deciding specially amow all the crookedness 11 mixed up in iv iberry Zt lerry had bad et rolled strolled into ithem 0 batched rat and stood silently by 11 ched a match and W a the side ildo ol of his black 1 I ll 11 49 tried to murder two KM joyce he said lew acne hammond here the other more than that he set anre to the bush which Is a good donl deal worse law I 1 dont believe id resort to the girl seemed to wilt dut but what am I 1 going to do cant you understand I 1 a thing how will I 1 live ilow how exist will I 1 you still have half of the e properties kenning and I 1 owned hammond interjected for that matter you can have nil all of thorn them im 1111 going on over the hill three days later inter jack hammond walked down to the lake with jeanno jeanne towers A plane had just como come in one of the last of 0 the season until the lake froze permitting the landing ot of ships on skis timmy moon crawled out of tile the cockpit got a letter for you jack ho he said A pilot gave it to me down at at Four cross 11 tick took the envelope and stared at the tha penciled writing suddenly hla his hands began to shake with a quick jerky motion lie ho tore OR off tile the end and pulled out thorough the rough lined sheet of paper within tile the words blurred for a long moment at last to clarify cameron hay day great bear lake northwest territories dear jack A fellow ellow just flew in from down yo your u way and said theres been hell to pay a y all around well jack I 1 guess tha V what makes a mining camp I 1 thought id get this of off by the pilot iles hopping back this afternoon if I 1 things dont clont turn out all right and that girl has really done dona what I 1 this follow says fays she did did what say we throw our grub in the same pack sack ack again this Is sure gods count country dm down n here at the arctic why I 1 know a place where theres enough rich stuff to set act a tellow fellow crazy I 1 never seen such a country why it makes sapphire lake look like a two spot you find and mo me could go wild finding stuff here jock jack why Y theres a regular wall ot of quartz s stretching retching ol of into the barren lands go god knows where there ought to be enough enouf gold in it to mako make a man sick say I 1 hope this follow fellow tell me all wrong about what happened down there but if you are olt all through with her and everything w what h at say any you do w what hat youve really been wanting to do now that sounds funny but everybody could see it but you you know see it 11 you cant get the girl you are really y ernay about well partner come right to cameron bay if you do come up and it if you do ask jeanne and she says hell come with yu you ill be awful glad good luck to you partner ars yrs yr joe p B S be uro sure to ask jeanne i wordlessly he ha read it again wordlessly he handed it to the girl her lips began to tremble as sho she read farther finally she looked up her eyes misty strangely eager well she said brokenly ars are you going to ask me A dog sled waited outside sergeant terrys tent tho the next morning its tarpaulin high over the heaped provisions necessary to a long journey again as jeanne towers and jack hammond stood before bifora him the sergeant repeated as best ho he could from memory the passages of the tha wedding ceremony there was a ring in his voice now and a smile on his generous kindly lips the service over he followed them to the dog team and bowed stiffly one hand properly crossed on his snow flecked red tunic A kiss for the bridee bride jack hammond laughed his old reckless deep cheated laugh ile ho released jeanno jeanne from the arm which encircled her A kiss for the police she bantered as she held up her lips sergeant terry protested treasel TI Pl easel not tor for all of them after a time there was only the man in red coat and yellow striped blue breeches bre echea standing there bareheaded his stiff brimmed hat bat held high far away where the etro alro line ended d a dog team wound slowly through the powdery snowfall into the silvered spir elike spruce and onward toward the arctic THE tha END |