up heralded the death of their hope--the hope that they
would be floating down the swift river ere navigation closed on the chain
of lakes.
To harrow Rasmunsen's soul further
he discovered three competitors
in the egg business. It was true that one
a little German
had gone broke
and was himself forlornly back-tripping the last pack of the portage; but
the other two had boats nearly completed
and were daily supplicating the
god of merchants and traders to stay the iron hand of winter for just
another day. But the iron hand closed down over the land. Men were
being frozen in the blizzard which swept Chilkoot
and Rasmunsen frosted
his toes ere he was aware. He found a chance to go passenger with his
freight in a boat just shoving off through the rubble
but two hundred hard
cash
was required
and he had no money.
Ay tank you yust wait one leedle w'ile said the Swedish boat-
builder
who had struck his Klondike right there and was wise enough to
know it--one leedle w'ile und I make you a tam fine skiff boatsure Pete."
With this unpledged word to go onRasmunsen hit the back trail to
Crater Lakewhere he fell in with two press correspondents whose tangled
baggage was strewn from Stone Houseover across the Passand as far as
Happy Camp.
Yes he said with
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