Kayak Bill let his gaze wander to the stern where Shane and Ellen stood
together at the wheel: Despite Boreland's battered countenance his chin
was up in his old jaunty and debonaire manner. The wind ruffled the
hair on his bare head. One hand managed the steering gear. The other
arm lay across his wife's shoulders.

Kayak, watching shook his head gently.

"I always hearn tell," he spoke softly to himself, "that the only
difference a-tween happy marriages and unhappy ones is that the happy
ones keeps their bickerin's private like--but I don't know, . . . I
don't know . . ."

A moment more he looked at the prospector and his wife, then he turned
away and his old eyes gazed out across the tinted ocean spaces to that
something which had always seemed to beckon him from beyond the sunset
glow. Lost in his dreaming the old man did not hear Shane's eager
voice as he released the wheel a moment and pointed off the bow to
where, beyond the rim of the sea, lay the northwest coast of Alaska.

"It's up there in the Valley of the Kuskokwim, El! They've made a
brand new strike and are getting ten dollars to the pan!" He looked
down at her and went on in his most coaxing Irish way. "Darlin', when
we get Loll in school, and Jean and Gregg and Kayak safely settled on
Kon Klayu . . ." he hesitated, then finished eagerly, "Sure El, it
would do us the world of good to go up there, little fellow, . . . just
to take a bit of a look. . . ." He straightened, his eyes alight with
the old questing expression, his face turned to the northwest, his
spirit already faring forth across sea and land to the beckoning Valley
of the Kuskokwim.

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