Did you ever see an earl ?" He felt it his duty to make explanations now that he had brought her in, and directed her attention to the third table on their left.

Three men were seated at this table.
"The man facing us, the one with a flabby face and pale mustache, is an earl--I forget his name," he said.

"He doesn't look it, but he is a real sport.

He is going up to shoot Kadiak bears, and sleeps on the floor.
The group beyond them, at the fifth table, are Treadwell mining men, and that fellow you see slouched against the wall, half asleep, with whiskers nearly to his waist, is Stampede Smith, an old-time partner of George Carmack, who discovered gold on Bonanza Creek in Ninety-six.

The thud of Carmack's spade, as it hit first pay, was the 'sound heard round the world,' Miss Standish.