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 again part us. There isn't gold enough in Alaska to buy you, old pal."

The following day after much searching they recovered the lost rifle from the river and the man and dog headed back for civilization. Richard took his time though, and prospected and hunted as they travelled, but their objective was Fairbluffs on the Tanana, two hundred miles from the great Yukon, the father of waters in Alaska.

They spent a week in Fairbluffs resting and recruiting their spirits and then went by a small steamer to Copperclaim, a small trading post at the mouth of the Tanana. Here Dick heard something of Silversheene's two years in Alaska, and especially the story of the great dog fight between Silversheene and Wolf.

"The brute! I'd like to thrash the life out of him," Dick cried, when they told him of François Dupret's cruelty and brutality.

"It isn't necessary," said his informant, and then he told Richard of how they had