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CHAPTER XV THE SILVER LODE
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A half-breed stood on the river bank beside his dog-team while Andrew handed Carnally the packs from the sled. It was late in the afternoon, the valley was swept by driving snow, and the men's hands were so numbed1 that they found it difficult to strap2 on their heavy loads. The ice was several feet in thickness on the deeper pools, but the stream ran strong along the opposite shore, and its frozen surface was rough, and broken in places by pools of inky water.
"It would save some trouble if we made our caches among these boulders," Graham suggested.
"That's so," agreed Carnally. "Still I guess it would be safer on the other side, where we'll strike it sooner coming back. It's wise to take no chances in this country."
They were loaded at last, and the gorge3 looked very desolate4 when the half-breed vanished with his dogs beyond the summit of the bank. He was not a man of much conversational5 powers, but they had found his company pleasant in the grim solitudes6. Andrew had hired him at an outlying Hudson Bay factory, where he had had no trouble in obtaining food. The fur trade was languishing7 thereabout, and prospectors10 for timber and minerals were made welcome. The Scot in charge of the lonely post had, however, no dogs for sale, though[Pg 155] he engaged to transport a limited quantity of provisions to a point which one of the company's half-breeds, despatched on another errand, would pass with his team.
Andrew considered Carnally's caution well justified11. Their supply of food was
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