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If what the papers said was true, it could amountto fifty million dollars, and if they continued to dredge gold by the bucketful fromthe beaches, it might run to eighty million. y the bleak, treeless tundra with its myriadlakes between Barrow and Desolation and the dark, ominous Chukchi Sea beyond. It was a gift of antiquity and civilization and love which theold woman was turning over to Klope, and it was a responsibility, too. significant fact about this tall, beautifuland terrible mountain: 'Because it lures you, like the sirens of

In the meantime Missy and Tom were making their trips with what might almost be describedas joy, for they carried to the top loa t must have been a combined mess hall and laundry, and when he reachedit, he jumped in the air, waved ' So after that the rides were a little more circumspect, with bothMissy and Tom preventing the shovel from descending too fast. 'We can thank God,' Buck said, 'that we escaped Soapy Smith.