And all Alaska will rejoice, for his power and his money have become twin monsters that are destroying Alaska just as he destroyed the life of my father.

Unless he dies, and his money-power ends, he will make of this great land nothing more than a shell out of which he and his kind have taken all the meat.

And the hour of deadliest danger is now upon us." He looked at Mary Standish, and it was as if death had come to her where she sat.

She seemed not to breathe, and her face was so white it frightened him.

And then, slowly, she turned her eyes upon him, and never had he seen such living pools of torture and of horror.