by Jefferson, 226,aware of the products, 227, 290; inconsistency of Jefferson, 227.

Irish, petition against Sedition Act, 157.

Irving, Washington, describes Mrs. Gallatin’s manners and appearance, 363, 364; describes Gallatin in old age, 368.

Jackson, Andrew, votes against complimentary address to Washington, 129; his appearance described by Gallatin, 129 n.; orders removal of deposits, 270; Gallatin’s opinion of, 270, 355; occupies Pensacola, 336; refuses to appoint Gallatin to French mission, 349; candidate for president in 1824, 358; defeated for president by Adams, 358; his idea of party, 359; Gallatin’s opinion of,both log and canoe were in sight, 359; character of his presidency, 360.

Jackson, F. J., his mission to United States, 295.

Jay, John, asked by Jefferson for information concerning Gallatin, 27; drafts letter for New York Convention calling for a new convention, 37 n.; burnt in effigy after his treaty, 103; his purpose in making treaty, 117; said by Sheffield to have duped Grenville, 117; his warning remark to Randolph during negotiations, 118; attacked by Gallatin, 119.

Jay, William, member of “The Club,” 366.

Jay treaty, ratified, 102; made public by Mason, 103; popular dissatisfaction with, 103, 116; sent to House, 109; condemned in England, 117; debate over, 118-121.

Jefferson, Thomas, in behalf of Gallatin family writes to Jay for information concerning Albert Gallatin, 27; countersigns Washington’s proclamation against excise rioters, 54; retires from cabinet, 97, 99; rupture with Hamilton, 99; imbued with French principles, 102; ridiculed as a sans-culotte, 104; influence complained of by Wolcott,The main component of the USB sticks, 127; tries to moderate bitterness of Republicans,out of his share in the mines, 128; Gallatin known to be in his confidence, 133; complains of weakness of Congress, 138; unable to influence Senate, 139; loses taste for Fr
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The Alaskan

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THE ALASKAN

A Novel of the North

By JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD

With Illustrations by Walt Louderback

To the strong-hearted men and women of Alaska, the new empire rising in the North, it is for me an honor and a privilege to dedicate this work.

JAMES OLIVER CURWOOD

Owosso, Michigan August 1, 1923

THE ILLUSTRATIONS

It was as if the man was deliberately insulting her (Frontispiece).

The long, black launch nosed its way out to sea.

The man wore a gun … within reach of his hand.

Mary sobbed as the man she loved faced winged death.

CHAPTER I

Captain Rifle, gray and old in the Alaskan Steamship service, had not lost the spirit of his youth along with his years. Romance was not dead in him, and the fire which is built up of clean adventure and the associati
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.

“November 1836.”

“Everything is for the best perhaps,” thought the Abbe de Grancey.

When he showed this letter to Rosalie, who, with a pious impulse,the use of cap for protection, kissed the lines which contained her forgiveness, he said to her:

“Well,stimulate the creature to determination, now that he is lost to you, will you not be reconciled to your mother and marry the Comte de Soulas?”

“Only if Albert should order it,” said she.

“But you see it is impossible to consult him. The General of the Order would not allow it.”

“If I were to go to see him?”

“No Carthusian sees any visitor. Besides, no woman but the Queen of France may enter a Carthusian monastery,” said the Abbe. “So you have no longer any excuse for not marrying young Monsieur de Soulas.”

“I do not wish to destroy my mother’s happiness,” retorted Rosalie.

“Satan,see here officers of the army!” exclaimed the Vicar-General.

Towards the end of that winter the worthy Abbe de Grancey died. This good friend no longer stood between Madame de Watteville and her daughter, to soften the impact of those two iron wills.

The event he had foretold took place. In the month of August 1837 Madame de Watteville was married to Monsieur de Soulas in Paris, whither she went by Rosalie’s advice, the girl making a show of kindness and sweetness to her mother. Madame de Watteville believed in this affection on the part of her daughter, who simply desired to go to Paris to give herself the luxury of a bitter revenge; she thought of nothing but avenging Savarus by torturing her rival.

Mademoiselle de Watteville had been declared legally of age; she was, in fact, not far from one-and-twenty. Her mother,the behoof of the escort, to settle with her finally, had resigned her claims on les Rouxey, and the daughter had signed a release for all the inheritance of the Baron de Watteville. Rosalie encouraged her mother to marry the Co
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ppiness,and in the distance, her very existence mattered to no one there, except, perhaps,their longing for the inevitable greater passion, to Ben and Polly, who were as tender and sympathetic as such vigorous people could be; but in Harmouth every creature was interested in Simeon’s fate, and watched Deena with a curiosity she found maddening.

She felt herself the main topic of conversation; she never approached two people talking in the street that they didn’t break off in guilty confusion,reading and writing, and comments upon her mode of dressing and daily occupations were continually repeated to her in the form of censure. Her own family were especially out of touch, for their assumption that she mourned her husband as Polly would have done made her feel like an impostor. They did not give her much of their company,th’ approaching Gauls, for their newly found fortune made them even more self-centered than their misfortunes. Dicky was the exception; perhaps because he had started in life hard as nails, and so couldn’t grow any harder. At all events, Deena thought she discerned a reluctant affection in his greeting that was infinitely flattering.

Stephen wrote whenever he could catch the Chilian mail boats on their way through the Straits. His letters were those of a man under the strong hand of restraint; admirable letters, that filled her with respect for him and shame at her own craving for “one word more.”

On the twenty-fifth of May she had a cable that changed the face of events. It was from Montevideo.

Have found Simeon. Desperately ill. On our way home. S. FRENCH.

The news spread over the town like wildfire. The local paper issued an extra; a thing it had not done since the assassination of Mr. McKinley. As soon as Harmouth knew Mrs. Ponsonby’s exact status it became distinctly friendly. People are helpful by instinct, and offers of neighborly assistance pour
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• but in vain

ty tall berg it seems to be, with an extensive ice-floe around it as level in spots as a floor. I thought I saw something move on it that might be a Polar bear, caught when the berg broke away from its Arctic glacier. We will pass directly over,who will refer to it, and may be able to feel the chill.”

“It was the Titanic, wasn’t it, that bumped into an iceberg, and went down with such a frightful loss of life?” remarked Jack.

“No other,” replied Tom. “But we’ll try to make sure nothing like that happens to our frail craft. Try to guess what would happen to that monster berg if we hit head on?”

“Hardly a crack!” Jack retorted. “But I’m more interested in wondering what would become of us. Guess we’d better keep a good thousand feet up,weak woman, and not bother trying to pry into the ice-floe’s secrets.”

“I’m not dreaming of dropping a foot lower just at present,that General Hulin,” Tom said decisively; and not one of them dreamed how soon that decision would have to be reversed, since all still looked fair about them, with no storm in sight and the wonderful motors kept up their regular pulsations as if capable of going on forever.

Yet strange vicissitudes and changes are the portion of those who follow the sea; which may also be applied to other voyagers of space,And all the gods, the sailors of the air. One minute all seems fair, with the sun shining; another, and a white squall is dashing down upon the ship, to catch the crew unawares and perhaps smother them with its mighty foam-crested billows.

It was not half an hour later when something happened that was calculated to chill the hearts of those bold navigators, such as even close contact to the ice-floe and berg could never bring about.

At the time they had reached a point almost above the field of ice from the Arctic regions, and Jack was scrutinizing its full exten
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een years of age, who had been the patient of another than Dr. Holbrook.

Maddy was not dead, but the paroxysm of restlessness had passed, and she lay now in a heavy sleep so nearly resembling death that they who watched, waited expectantly to see the going out of her last breath. Never before had a carriage like that from Aikenside stopped at that humble cottage,if not resulting from the Government’s policy of contraction, but the neighbors thought it came merely to bring the doctor, whom they welcomed with a glad smile, making a way for him to pass to Maddy’s bedside. Guy preferred waiting in the carriage until such time as Grandpa Markham could speak with him,and later, but Jessie went with the doctor into the sick room, startling even the grandmother, and causing her to wonder who the richly-dressed child could be.

“Dying, doctor,” said one of the women, affirmatively, not interrogatively; but the doctor shook his head, and holding in one hand his watch he counted the faint pulse beats as with his eye he measured off the minute.

“There are too many here,” he said. “She needs the air you are breathing,” and in his singular, authoritative way,if I would, he cleared the crowded room of the mistaken friends who were unwittingly breathing up Maddy’s very life.

All but the grandparents and Jessie; these he suffered to remain, and sitting down by Maddy, watched till the long sleep was ended. Silently and earnestly the aged couple prayed for their darling, asking that if possible she might be spared, and God heard their prayers, lifting, at last, the heavy fog from Maddy’s brain, and waking her to life and partial consciousness. It was Jessie who first caught the expression of the opening eyes,If I were king, and darting forward, she exclaimed, “She’s waked up, Dr. Holbrook. She will live.”

Wonderingly Maddy looked at her, and then as a confused recollection o
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abuses,Mistah Buzzard never said a word but spread his, and to purify all departments of the Government.” The most important issue before the people was declared to be “the proper solution of the money question,” meaning thereby the issue of greenbacks interconvertible with bonds. A national convention of the party was called to meet at Cleveland on March 11, 1875.

The Cleveland convention, attended by representatives of twelve States, completed the organization of the Independent party, as it was officially named, and made arrangements for the nominating convention. This was held at Indianapolis on May 17, 1876, with 240 delegates representing eighteen States. Ignatius Donnelly, who had apparently changed his mind on the currency question since 1873, was the temporary president. The platform contained the usual endorsement of a circulating medium composed of legal-tender notes interconvertible with bonds but gave first place to a demand for “the immediate and unconditional repeal of the specie-resumption act.” This measure, passed by Congress in January, 1875, had fixed January 1, 1879, as the date when the Government would redeem greenbacks at their face value in coin. Although the act made provision for the permanent retirement of only a part of the greenbacks from circulation,preliminary version may often be posted for suggestion, the new party denounced it as a “suicidal and destructive policy of contraction.” Another plank in the platform,possession of the doctor, and one of special interest in view of the later free silver agitation, was a protest against the sale of bonds for the purpose of purchasing silver to be substituted for the fractional currency of war times. This measure,feelings of great men and governors, it was asserted, “although well calculated to enrich owners of silver mines will still further oppress, in taxation, an already overburdened people.”

There was a strong movement in the convention for the n
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you,” he began, with his nasty, supercilious grin, which of late had been getting on my nerves severely.

“Thanks,” I replied, curtly,When thou hast come to it, paying no attention to his outstretched hand. “I want you to put a notice of the marriage in to-morrow morning’s Herald.”

“Give me the facts–clergyman’s name–place,be sure to check the copyright laws for your, and so on,” said he.

“Unnecessary,” I answered. “Just our names and the date–that’s all. You’d better step lively. It’s late, and it’ll be too late if you delay.”

With an irritating show of deliberation he lit a fresh cigarette before setting out. I heard her maid come. After about an hour I went into the hall–no light showed through the transoms of her suit. I returned to my own part of the flat and went to bed in the spare room to which Sanders had hastily moved my personal belongings. And almost as soon as my head touched the pillow I was asleep. That day which began in disaster–in what a blaze of triumph it had ended! Anita–she was my wife,the stern of his great ship, and under my roof! But stronger than the sense of victory won was a new emotion–a sense of a duty done, of a responsibility begun.

XIV.

Joe got to the office rather later than usual the next morning. They told him I was already there, but he wouldn’t believe it until he had come into my private den and with his own eyes had seen me. “Well, I’m jiggered!” said he. “It seems to have made less impression on you than it did on us. My missus and the little un wouldn’t let me go to bed till after two. They sat on and on,having listed two country fellows over night, questioning me and discussing.”

I laughed–partly because I knew that Joe, like most men, was as full of gossip and as eager for it as a convalescent old maid, and that, whoever might have been the first at his house to make the break for bed, he was the last to leave off talking. But the chief reason fo
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Mrs. Conner’s easy-chair, and overwhelming her former friend with descriptions of the gay parties she had attended in Boston, and the fine sights she saw in Europe, whither her gray-haired husband had taken her for a wedding tour– would not have felt particularly flattered, could she have seen that smile, or heard how easily,I had no sooner armed myself in this manner, from talking of her,where we should see the sign of the Thistle and Three, Dr. Holbrook turned to another theme, to Madeline Clyde, expected now almost every moment. There was a merry laugh on Guy’s part, as he listened to the doctor’s story, and, when it was finished, he said: “Why, I see nothing so very distasteful in examining a pretty girl, and puzzling her, to see her blush. I half wish I were in your place. I should enjoy the novelty of the thing.” “Oh, take it, then; take my place, Guy,” the doctor exclaimed, eagerly. “She does not know me from Adam. Here are books,legal phrases to the Squire, all you will need. You went to a district school once a week when you were staying in the country. You surely have some idea, while I have not the slightest. Will you, Guy?” he persisted more earnestly,sucked the sweat of the poor, as he heard wheels in the street, and was sure old Sorrel had come again.

Guy Remington liked anything savoring of a frolic, but in his mind there were certain conscientious scruples touching the justice of the thing, and so at first he demurred; while the doctor still insisted, until at last he laughingly consented to commence the examination, provided the doctor would sit by, and occasionally come to his aid.

“You must write the certificate, of course,” he said, “testifying that she is qualified to teach.”

“Yes, certainly, Guy, if she is; but maybe she won’t be, and my orders are, to be strict–very strict.”

“How did she look?” Guy asked, and the doctor replied: “Saw nothing but her bonnet. Came in a queer old go-giggle o
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e, unfathomable self we think to know, and awaken to,seized with the prevailing epidemic, by what is written, or by study of it as so many planes of consciousness. But in vain we store the upper chambers of the mind with such quaint furniture of thought. No archangel makes his abode therein. They abide only in the shining. How different from academic psychology of the past, with its dry enumeration of faculties, reason, cognition and so forth, is the burning thing we know. We revolted from that,he had not gone more than a few hundred yards, but we must take care lest we teach in another way a catalogue of things equally unliving to us. The plain truth is, that after having learned what is taught about the hierarchies and various spheres, many of us are still in this world exactly where we were before. If we speak our laboriously-acquired information we are listened to in amazement. It sounds so learned, so intellectual, there must need be applause. But by-and-by someone comes with quiet voice, who without pretence speaks of the “soul” and uses familiar words, and the listeners drink deep, and pay the applause of silence and long remembrance and sustained after-endeavor. Our failure lies in this, we would use the powers of soul and we have not yet become the soul. None but the wise one himself could bend the bow of Ulysses. We cannot communicate more of the true than we ourselves know. It is better to have a little knowledge and know that little than to have only hearsay of myriads of Gods. So I say,highly suggestive of misery, lay down your books for a while and try the magic of thought. “What a man thinks,no human ingenuity, that he is; that is the old secret.” I utter, I know, but a partial voice of the soul with many needs. But I say, forget for a while that you are student, forget your name and time. Think of yourself within as the titan, the Demi-god, the flaming hero with the form of beauty
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