A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London
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Title: A Daughter of the Snows
Author: Jack London
Release Date: January 10, 2005 [eBook #14654]
Language: English
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A DAUGHTER OF THE SNOWS
by
JACK LONDON
Author of The Son of The Wolf, The Call of the Wild, The People of the Abyss, etc.
With Illustrations by Frederick C. Yohn
Grosset & Dunlap Publishers--New York
CHAPTER I
"All ready, Miss Welse, though I'm sorry we can't spare one of the steamer's boats."
Frona Welse arose with alacrity and came to the first officer's side.
"We're so busy," he explained, "and gold-rushers are such perishable freight, at least--"
"I understand," she interrupted, "and I, too, am behaving as though I were perishable. And I am sorry for the trouble I am giving you, but--but--" She turned quickly and pointed to the shore. "Do you see that big log-house? Between the clump of pines and the river? I was born there."
"Guess I'd be in a hurry myself," he muttered, sympathetically, as he piloted her along the crowded deck.
Everybody was in everybo