"Possibly some people would think it enough, Miss Standish.

But the tentacles of his power are reaching everywhere in Alaska.

His agents swarm throughout the territory, and Soapy Smith was a gentleman outlaw compared with these men and their master.

If men like John Graham are allowed to have their way, in ten years greed and graft will despoil what two hundred years of Rooseveltian conservation would not be able to replace." She raised her head, and in the dusk her pale face looked up at the ghost-peaks of the mountains still visible through the thickening gloom of evening.

"I am glad you told me about Belinda Mulrooney," she said.
"I am beginning to understand, and it gives me courage to think of a woman like her.