tent-flap lifted, and Matt McCarthy peered in. "It's yerself,
Frona, is it? With breakfast waitin' this half-hour on ye, an' old
Andy fumin' an' frettin' like the old woman he is. Good-mornin' to ye,
Neepoosa," he addressed Frona's companions, "an' to ye, Muskim, though,
belike ye've little mimory iv me face."

The old couple grunted salutation and remained stolidly silent.

"But hurry with ye, girl," turning back to Frona. "Me steamer starts
by mid-day, an' it's little I'll see iv ye at the best. An' likewise
there's Andy an' the breakfast pipin' hot, both iv them."




CHAPTER III

Frona waved her hand to Andy and swung out on the trail. Fastened
tightly to her back were her camera and a small travelling satchel. In
addition, she carried for alpenstock the willow pole of Neepoosa. Her
dress was of the mountaineering sort, short-skirted and scant, allowing
the greatest play with the least material, and withal gray of color and
modest.

Her outfit, on the backs of a dozen Indians and in charge of Del
Bishop, had got under way hours before. The previous day, on her
return with Matt McCarthy from the Siwash camp, she had found Del
Bishop at the store waiting her. His business was quickly transacted,
for the proposition he made was terse and to the point. She was going
into the country. He was intending to go in. She would need somebody.
If she had not picked any one yet, why he was just the man. He had
forgotten to tell her the day he took her ashore that he had been in
the country years before and knew all about it. True, he hated the
water, and it was mainly a water journey; but he was not afraid of it.
He was afraid of nothing. Further, he would fight for her at the drop
of the hat. As for pay, when they got to Dawson, a good word from her
to Jacob Welse, and a year's outfit would be his. No, no; no
grub-stake about it, no strings on him! He would pay for the outfit
later on when his sack was dusted. What did she think about it,
anyway? And Frona did t

John Holland Rose (1855-1942) was an influential English historian who wrote a famous biography of French emperor Napoleon Bonaparte and also wrote a history of Europe, entitled The Development of the European Nations. Rose was the basis for C. P. Snows fictional character M. H. L. Gay (see Years of Hope: Cambridge, Colonial Administrator in the South Seas, and Cricket by Philip Snow.)

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