Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE YUKON TRAIL

A Tale of the North

by

WILLIAM MacLEOD RAINE

Author of Wyoming, Bucky O'Connor, Etc.

With Illustrations by George Ellis Wolfe

New York Grosset & Dunlap Publishers Copyright, 1917, by William MacLeod Raine All Rights Reserved Published May 1917

TO
MY BROTHER
EDGAR C. RAINE

who knew the Lights of Dawson when they were a magnet to the feet
of those answering the call of Adventure, who mushed the Yukon Trail
from its headwaters to Bering Sea, who still finds in the Frozen
North the Romance of the Last Frontier.

Contents

I. Going "In" 1
II. Enter a Man 10
III. The Girl from Drogheda 23
IV. The Crevasse 34
V. Across the Traverse 49
VI. Sheba sings--and Two Men listen 58
VII. Wally gets Orders 71
VIII. The End of the Passage 82
IX. Gid Holt goes prospecting 93
X. The Rah-Rah Boy functions 109
XI. Gordon invites himself to Dinner--and does not enjoy it 125
XII. Sheba says "Perhaps" 137
XIII. Diane and Gordon differ 144
XIV. Genevieve Mallory takes a Hand 156
XV. Gordon buys a Revolver 170
XVI. Ambushed 181
XVII. "God save you kindly" 193
XVIII. Gordon spends a Busy Evening 201
XIX. Sheba does not think so 210
XX. Gordon finds himself Unpopular 217
XXI. A New Way of leaving a House 227
XXII. Gid Holt comes to Kusiak 232
XXIII. In the Dead of Night 241
XXIV. Macdonald follows a Clue 247
XXV. In the Blizzard 256
XXVI. Hard Mushing 268
XXVII. Two on the Trail 275
XXVIII. A Message from the Dead 286
XXIX. "Don't touch him! Don't you dare touch him!" 292
XXX. Holt frees his Mind 301
XXXI. Sheba digs 308
XXXII. Diane changes her Mind 318

Illustrations

Now he caught her by the shoulders _Frontispiece_
"So you think I'm a 'fraid-cat, Mr. Elliot?" 44
The situation was piquant, even though it was at her expense 236
For him the beauty of the night lay largely in her presence 322

The Yukon Trail