Sheba had been full of gayety and life, but her mood was changed. All
the way home she was strangely silent.
CHAPTER XXII
GID HOLT COMES TO KUSIAK
The days grew short. In sporting circles the talk was no longer of the
midnight Fourth of July baseball game, but of preparation for the Alaska
Sweepstakes, since the shadow of the cold Arctic winter had crept down
to the Yukon and touched its waters to stillness. Men, gathered around
warm stoves, spoke of the merits of huskies and Siberian wolf-hounds, of
the heavy fall of snow in the hills, of the overhauling of outfits and
the transportation of supplies to distant camps.
The last river boat before the freeze-up had long since gone. A month
earlier the same steamer had taken down in a mail sack the preliminary
report of Elliot to his department chief. One of the passengers on that
trip had been Selfridge, sent out to counteract the influence of the
evidence against the claimants submitted by the field agent. An
information had been filed against Gordon for highway robbery and
attempted murder. Wally was to see that the damning facts against him
were brought to the attention of officials in high places where the
charges would do most good.
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