ral miles down the
Yukon and saw to it that the trails they trod led to the white man's
paradise. He was roused from his sleep by a strange Indian, who gave
into his charge not only the soul but the body of a woman, and having
done this drove quickly away. This woman was heavy, and handsome, and
angry, and in her wrath unclean words fell from her mouth. This shocked
the worthy man, but he was yet young and her presence would have been
pernicious (in the simple eyes of his flock), had she not struck out on
foot for Dawson with the first gray of dawn.

The shock to Dawson came many days later, when the summer had come and
the population honored a certain royal lady at Windsor by lining the
Yukon's bank and watching Sitka Charley rise up with flashing paddle and
drive the first canoe across the line. On this day of the races, Mrs.
Eppingwell, who had learned and unlearned numerous things, saw Freda for
the first time since the night of the ball. "Publicly, mind you," as
Mrs. McFee expressed it, "without regard or respect for the morals of the
community," she went up to the dancer and held out her hand. At first,
it is remembered by those who saw, the girl shrank back, then words
passed between the two, and Freda, great Freda, broke down and wept on
the shoulder of the captain's wife. It was not given to Dawson to know
why Mrs. Eppingwell should crave forgiveness of a Greek dancing girl, but
she did it publicly, and it was unseemly.

It were well not to forget Mrs. McFee. She took a cabin passage on the
first steamer going out. She also took with her a theory which she had
achieved in the silent watches of the long dark nights; and it is her
conviction that the Northland is unregenerate because it is so cold
there. Fear of hell-fire cannot be bred in an ice-box. This may appear
dogmatic, but it is Mrs. McFee's theory.

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