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"
That
settles
it
,
"
he
announced
.
"
We
camp
right
here
.
"
And
camp
they
did
,
till
Buck
's
ribs
knitted
and
he
was
able
to
travel
.
That
winter
,
at
Dawson
,
Buck
performed
another
exploit
,
not
so
heroic
,
perhaps
,
but
one
that
put
his
name
many
notches
higher
on
the
totem-pole
of
Alaskan
fame
.
This
exploit
was
particularly
gratifying
to
the
three
men
;
for
they
stood
in
need
of
the
outfit
which
it
furnished
,
and
were
enabled
to
make
a
long-desired
trip
into
the
virgin
East
,
where
miners
had
not
yet
appeared
.
It
was
brought
about
by
a
conversation
in
the
Eldorado
Saloon
,
in
which
men
waxed
boastful
of
their
favorite
dogs
.
Buck
,
because
of
his
record
,
was
the
target
for
these
men
,
and
Thornton
was
driven
stoutly
to
defend
him
.
At
the
end
of
half
an
hour
one
man
stated
that
his
dog
could
start
a
sled
with
five
hundred
pounds
and
walk
off
with
it
;
a
second
bragged
six
hundred
for
his
dog
;
and
a
third
,
seven
hundred
.
"
Pooh
!
pooh
!
"
said
John
Thornton
;
"
Buck
can
start
a
thousand
pounds
.
"
"
And
break
it
out
?
and
walk
off
with
it
for
a
hundred
yards
?
"
demanded
Matthewson
,
a
Bonanza
King
,
he
of
the
seven
hundred
vaunt
.
"
And
break
it
out
,
and
walk
off
with
it
for
a
hundred
yards
,
"
John
Thornton
said
coolly
.
"
Well
,
"
Matthewson
said
,
slowly
and
deliberately
,
so
that
all
could
hear
,
"
I
've
got
a
thousand
dollars
that
says
he
ca
n't
.
And
there
it
is
.
"
So
saying
,
he
slammed
a
sack
of
gold
dust
of
the
size
of
a
bologna
sausage
down
upon
the
bar
.
Nobody
spoke
.
Thornton
's
bluff
,
if
bluff
it
was
,
had
been
called
.
He
could
feel
a
flush
of
warm
blood
creeping
up
his
face
.
His
tongue
had
tricked
him
.
He
did
not
know
whether
Buck
could
start
a
thousand
pounds
.
Half
a
ton
!
The
enormousness
of
it
appalled
him
.
He
had
great
faith
in
Buck
's
strength
and
had
often
thought
him
capable
of
starting
such
a
load
;
but
never
,
as
now
,
had
he
faced
the
possibility
of
it
,
the
eyes
of
a
dozen
men
fixed
upon
him
,
silent
and
waiting
.
Further
,
he
had
no
thousand
dollars
;
nor
had
Hans
or
Pete
.
"
I
've
got
a
sled
standing
outside
now
,
with
twenty
fiftypound
sacks
of
flour
on
it
,
"
Matthewson
went
on
with
brutal
directness
;
"
so
do
n't
let
that
hinder
you
.
"
Thornton
did
not
reply
.
He
did
not
know
what
to
say
.
He
glanced
from
face
to
face
in
the
absent
way
of
a
man
who
has
lost
the
power
of
thought
and
is
seeking
somewhere
to
find
the
thing
that
will
start
it
going
again
.
The
face
of
Jim
O'Brien
,
a
Mastodon
King
and
old-time
comrade
,
caught
his
eyes
.
It
was
as
a
cue
to
him
,
seeming
to
rouse
him
to
do
what
he
would
never
have
dreamed
of
doing
.
