there no thieves? Not one. No cut-throats? None. Gamblers?
"Plenty. Everybody gambles, especially in the long winter nights."
"Don't they cheat?"
"No."
"Why not?"
"The saloon-keepers won't have it."
"How can they prevent it? Are there no professional gamblers in the camps?"
"Yes, but they put up a straight game. And there are men, too, who have been pretty bad before; I have heard that some of them were ex-convicts and fellows who had run away to escape prison and hanging. But none of them try anything on in there. "
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"sheep camp" or "last timber."
Ten miles from Dyea, on the road to the Chilkoot Pass. To cover these ten miles in winter requires two days. From this point the Indians—men, women, and children—carry the traveler's outfit to the summit of Chilkoot Pass, six miles away. Here and at Dyea, and on the trail between them, the men who rushed in last summer were stalled because of the lack of packers to carry their outfits to the top of the Pass.
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"But why don't they?"
"I don't know; but they don't."
"What are they afraid of? Has any one ever been punished?"
"Not that I remember."
"Well, why don't thieves steal on the Klondike?"
"I guess it's because they dasent."
Though quietly spoken, this vague answer came with an expression of face—just a quick flash of light—and a slight shift-
