Funny what this filthy stuff we call money can do, isn't it?
Two winters ago I saw whole Indian villages starving, and women and little children dying by the score because of this John Graham's money.

Over-fishing did it, you understand.

If you could have seen some of those poor little devils, just skin and bones, crying for a rag to eat--" Her hand clutched at his arm.

"How could John Graham--do that ?" she whispered.
He laughed unpleasantly.

"When you have been a year in Alaska you won't ask that question, Miss Standish.