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[Assistant] In reply I received a most unpleasant letter informing me that I could go. Once such a letter would have upset me greatly. Now I no longer cared.


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[Assistant] Later, Miss Halcombe and I walked the farm, and Miss Halcombe went in while I waited nearby.


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[Assistant] To my surprise, she returned after only a few minutes.


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[Assistant] Does Anne Catharic refuse to see you? I asked. Anne Catharic has gone, replied Miss Calcom. She left this morning with Mrs Clements.


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[Assistant] The farmer's wife, Mrs Todd, has no idea why they left or where they went.


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[Assistant] She just said that Anne Catherick had been disturbed after reading something in the local newspaper a couple of days ago.


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[Assistant] I looked at the paper and saw that it mentioned Laura's future wedding.


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[Assistant] Then Mrs. Todd said that Anne Catherick fainted last night, apparently in shock at something mentioned by one of the servant girls from our house, who was visiting the farm on her evening off. We hurried back to the house to question the servant girl.


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[Assistant] Miss Halcombe asked her if she had mentioned Sir Percival Glide's name while at the farm.


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[Assistant] Oh yes, the girl replied. I said he was coming on Monday.


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[Assistant] The next morning on my way to school, I pushed her card under Jimmy's locked door.


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[Assistant] At lunchtime, Colin and Marie and I walked up to Broadway together.


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[Assistant] Jimmy was helping a customer, but he saw us through the glass door, made a face and shook his head no. I guess he means it, Colin said.


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[Assistant] We stood there in front of the door for a minute, just in case. When the customer left with the sandwich, Jimmy glanced over at us again.


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[Assistant] Colin put his hands together under his chin like he was praying and made a puppy dog face. Which was a dumb joke, but also pretty cute.


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[Assistant] Jimmy took a rag and started wiping down the counter, and then he raised one arm and waved us in without looking up. So we can come back to work? Colin asked when we'd all crowded in the door. Jimmy looked at us. You're good kids, he said, but you don't know what you're doing half the time.


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[Assistant] Colin ran around slapping everyone five, including Jimmy, who even smiled. But here's the thing.


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[Assistant] Jimmy said after Colin had taken a victory lap behind the counter and through the back room, Your friend, little Swiss Miss, don't let me find her in here again, ever. Who? Amory said. I think he means Julia, I said. You think Julia took the money? Colin laughed. Julia needs money like a fish needs a bicycle. Jimmy shook his head.


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[Assistant] Some things are in the blood. All the money in the world can't change a person's blood. What do you mean blood? Anne Marie had her hands on her hips. What blood? Jimmy pointed his big finger right at me.


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[Assistant] Like you, caller. Swiss miss. Hot chocolate. Huh? Colin looked at me and back to Jimmy.


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[Assistant] You pig! She said. You racist pig! I had never seen Anne-Marie angry.


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[Assistant] She was scary, and also obviously about to cry. Jimmy shrugged.


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[Assistant] It's your life. I'm not having that little thief back in here. You don't have to come back either.


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[Assistant] I won't! Anne-Marie shouted, and she banged out the door.


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[Assistant] Jimmy shrugged again, and I banged out after Anne-Marie. Colin followed me.


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[Assistant] We found her crying halfway down the block, walking fast. She was spitting words. That. Big. Fat. Jerk!


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[Assistant] No way, Colin said. He's crazy. Anne-Marie turned on me then. Is that your name for her? Swiss Miss? I, no.


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[Assistant] I said it one time, but I didn't mean... I meant about how she's always talking about Switzerland. Her watch and the chocolate and... She is? Colin asked. I never heard her talk about Switzerland.


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[Assistant] If anyone needs the money, Anne-Marie said to me coldly, it's you, not Julia. Are you serious? I didn't take the stupid money. Forget it, she said. I want to be alone. And she stomped off towards school.


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[Assistant] Colin raised his eyebrows after her and then showed me a rolled up dollar. Wanna get a slice?


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[Assistant] So we went to the pizza place, but it wasn't fun.


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[Assistant] When walking back to school, it occurred to me that Colin might not like me at all. He might just like pizza.


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[Assistant] Tell me something, I said just before we got to our classroom. That day the bread count was short by two rolls. Did you take them? Yeaah, Colin said, starting to smile. I thought it would be... Hey, I didn't steal Jimmy's bank, you know.


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[Assistant] He looked at me through his bangs with his injured puppy face. I know, I said quickly. I know you wouldn't. The roles were just for fun, he said.


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[Assistant] But taking the bank would be, you know, stealing. Yeaah.


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[Assistant] I didn't get to talk to Anne-Marie all the rest of that afternoon.


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[Assistant] After silent reading period, she went to art and music, and I went to gym and science.


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[Assistant] And then some of the kindergartners came to our classroom to sing Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer. And then it was Christmas vacation.


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[Assistant] The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne.


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[Assistant] Chapter 1 Bruno Makes a Discovery


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[Assistant] When Bruno came home from school, he was surprised to find Maria, the family's maid, who always kept her head bowed and never looked up from the carpet, standing in his bedroom, pulling all his belongings out of the wardrobe and packing them in four large wooden crates, even the things he'd hidden at the back that belonged to him and were nobody else's business.


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[Assistant] What are you doing?" he asked in as polite a tone as he could muster, for although he wasn't happy to come home and find someone going through his possessions, his mother had always told him that he was to treat Maria respectfully, and not just imitate the way father spoke to her. You take your hands off my things. Maria shook her head.


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[Assistant] Mother? said Bruno marching towards her. What's going on? Why is Maria going through my things? She's packing them, explained Mother. Packing them? he asked.


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[Assistant] Running quickly through the events of the previous few days to consider whether he'd been particularly naughty or had used those words out loud that he wasn't allowed to use and was being sent away because of it. He couldn't think of anything, though.


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[Assistant] In fact, over the last few days he had behaved in a perfectly decent manner to everyone and couldn't remember causing any chaos at all. Why, he asked then, what have I done?


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[Assistant] Mother had walked into her own bedroom by then, but last the butler was in there, packing her things too.


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[Assistant] Leading the way towards the large dining room where the Fury had been to dinner the week before. We'll talk down there.


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[Assistant] Said mother, sitting down in the chair where the beautiful blonde woman who'd come to dinner with the fury had sat, and waved at him when father closed the doors. In fact, if anything, it's going to be a great adventure. What is? he asked. Am I being sent away? No, not just you, she said, looking as if she might smile for a moment, but thinking better of it. We all are.


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[Assistant] Your father and I, Gretel and you, all four of us. Bruno thought about this and frowned.


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[Assistant] He wasn't particularly bothered if Gretel was being sent away because she was a hopeless case and caused nothing but trouble for him, but it seemed a little unfair that they all had to go with her. But where, he asked, where are we going exactly? Why can't we stay here? Your father's job, explained Mother. You know how important it is, don't you?


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[Assistant] Yes, of course, said Bruno, nodding his head, because there were always so many visitors to the house, men in fantastic uniforms, women with typewriters that he had to keep his mucky hands off, and they were always very polite to father, and told each other that he was a man to watch, and that the fury had big things in mind for him.


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[Assistant] Sometimes when someone is very important, continued mother.


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[Assistant] Because if he was honest with himself, which he always tried to be, he wasn't entirely sure what job father did.


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[Assistant] In school, they had talked about their fathers one day and Carl had said that his father was a greengrocer, which Bruno knew to be true because he ran the greengrocer shop in the centre of town.


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[Assistant] And Daniel had said that his father was a teacher, which Bruno knew to be true because he taught the big boys, who it was always wise to steer clear of.


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[Assistant] And Martin had said that his father was a chef, which Bruno knew to be true because he sometimes collected Martin from school, and when he did he always wore a white smock and a tartan apron, as if he just stepped out of his kitchen. But when they asked Bruno what his father did, he opened his mouth to tell them, then realized that he didn't know himself.


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[Assistant] All he could say was that his father was a man to watch, and that the fury had big things in mind for him. Oh, and that he had a fantastic uniform too.


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[Assistant] It's a very important job, said Mother, hesitating for a moment. A job that needs a very special man to do it. You can understand that, can't you? And we all have to go too, asked Bruno.


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[Assistant] Of course we do, said Mother. You wouldn't want Father to go to his new job on his own and be lonely there, would you? I suppose not, said Bruno.


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[Assistant] He would miss you both equally, said Mother, for she was a great believer in not playing favorites, which Bruno respected, especially since he knew that he was her favorite really. But what about our house? asked Bruno. Who's going to take care of it while we're gone? Mother sighed and looked around the room, as if she might never see it again.


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[Assistant] But the slanted windows, where Bruno could see right across Berlin if he stood up on his tiptoes and held onto the frame tightly. We have to close up the house for now, said Mother, but we'll come back to it someday.


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[Assistant] They're coming with us, explained Mother, but that's enough questions for now. Maybe you should go upstairs and help Maria with your packing.


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[Assistant] Oh my, said Mother with a laugh, although it was a strange kind of laugh because she didn't look happy.


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[Assistant] But what about school? said Bruno, interrupting her, a thing he knew he was not supposed to do, but which he felt he would be forgiven for on this occasion. And what about Carl and Daniel and Martin? How will they know where I am when we want to do things together?


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[Assistant] You'll have to say goodbye to your friends for the time being, said Mother. Although I'm sure you'll see them again in time.


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[Assistant] And don't interrupt your mother when she's talking, please, she added. For although this was strange and unpleasant news,


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[Assistant] There was certainly no need for Bruno to break the rules of politeness which he'd been taught.


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[Assistant] Say goodbye to Carl and Daniel and Martin, he continued, his voice coming dangerously close to shouting which was not allowed indoors. But they're my three best friends for life!


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[Assistant] Oh, you'll make other friends, said Mother, waving her hand in the air dismissively, as if the making of a boy's three best friends for life was an easy thing. But we had plans, he protested. Plans? asked Mother, raising an eyebrow. What sort of plans?


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[Assistant] Well, that would be telling," said Bruno, who could not reveal the exact nature of the plans, which included causing a lot of chaos, especially in a few weeks' time when school finished for the summer holidays, and they didn't have to spend all their time just making plans but could actually put them into effect instead. I'm sorry, Bruno," said Mother, but your plans are just going to have to wait. We don't have a choice in this.


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[Assistant] But mother, Bruno, that's enough, she said, snapping at him now, and standing up to show him that she was serious when she said that was enough.


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[Assistant] Honestly, only last week you were complaining about how much things have changed here recently. Well, I don't like the way we have to turn all the lights off at night now, he admitted. Everyone has to do that, said Mother, it keeps us safe, and who knows, maybe we'll be in less danger if we move away. Now I need you to go upstairs and help Maria with your packing.


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[Assistant] And wondered whether the new house and the new place where the new job was would have as fine a banister to slide down as this one did.


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[Assistant] For the banister in this house stretched from the very top floor just outside the little room where if he stood on his tiptoes and held onto the frame of the window tightly, he could see right across Berlin.


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[Assistant] To the ground floor, just in front of the two enormous oak doors.


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[Assistant] And Bruno liked nothing better than to get on board the banister at the top floor and slide his way through the house making whooshing sounds as he went.


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[Assistant] Down to the ground floor, where you fell off the end of the banister and had to land flat on your two feet, or it was five points against you and you had to start all over again. The banister was the best thing about this house.


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[Assistant] That, and the fact that grandfather and grandmother live so nearby. And when he thought about that, it made him wonder whether they were coming to the new job too, and he presumed that they were because they could hardly be left behind.


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[Assistant] No one needed Gretel much because she was a hopeless case. It would be a lot easier if she stayed to look after the house, but grandfather and grandmother? Well, that was an entirely different matter.


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[Assistant] But before going inside, he looked back down towards the ground floor, and saw Mother entering Father's office, which faced the dining room, and was out of bounds at all times and no exceptions.


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[Assistant] And Bruno couldn't hear anymore, so he thought it would be a good idea if he went back to his room and took over the packing from Maria, because otherwise she might pull all his belongings out of the wardrobe without any care or consideration, even the things he'd hidden at the back that belonged to him, and were nobody else's business.


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[Assistant] We are practicing even more now. He sits in a chair opposite her. I'm the timekeeper.


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[Assistant] Mom closes her eyes, and I know that she is lifting a corner of her veil. She nods, and we begin.


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[Assistant] Mom says each of us has a veil between ourselves and the rest of the world.


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[Assistant] Like a bride wears on her wedding day. Except this kind of veil is invisible.


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[Assistant] We walk around happily with these invisible veils hanging down over our faces. The world is kind of blurry, and we like it that way.


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[Assistant] But sometimes our veils are pushed away for a few moments, like there's a wind blowing it from our faces.


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[Assistant] And when the veil lifts, we can see the world as it really is, just for those few seconds before it settles down again.


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[Assistant] We see all the beauty and cruelty and sadness and love. But mostly we are happy not to. Some people learn to lift the veil themselves. Then they don't have to depend on the wind anymore. She doesn't mean that it's a real veil.


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[Assistant] And it isn't about magic or some idea that maybe God is looking right at you, or that an angel is sitting next to you, or anything like that. Mom doesn't think in those ways.


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[Assistant] It's just her way of saying that most of the time people get distracted by little stuff and ignore the big stuff.


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[Assistant] To play in the winner circle, mom has to get herself in a certain frame of mind.


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[Assistant] She says it's sort of like lifting one little corner of her veil. Enough to see more than usual. But not so much that she gets totally distracted by life, death, and the beauty of it all.


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[Assistant] She has to open her mind, she says, so that when the clues start coming, she can see the thread that joins them.


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[Assistant] Of course, if her celebrity is as dumb as a bag of hair, it's hopeless.


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[Assistant] I wonder if, every once in a while, someone is born without one. Someone who sees the big stuff all the time. Like maybe you.


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[Assistant] At that moment a cab arrived and Mr Gilmore, the family friend and legal advisor, got out. He was an elderly man, pleasant looking and neatly dressed.


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[Assistant] Miss Halcombe introduced me and then went away to discuss family matters with him. I wandered out into the garden.


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[Assistant] My time at Limeridge House was nearly at an end, and I wanted to say a last goodbye to the places where I had so often walked with Miss Fairleigh, in the dream-time of my happiness and my love.


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[Assistant] But the autumn day was grey and damp, and those golden memories were already fading. As I returned to the house, I met Mr Gilmore.


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[Assistant] Ah, Mr. Hartright, he said. Miss Halkam has told me how helpful you have been about this strange letter received by Miss Fairleigh.


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[Assistant] I want you to know that the investigation is now in my safe hands. I have written to Sir Percival Glide's lawyer in London, and I'm sure we will receive a satisfactory explanation.


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[Assistant] I'm afraid I'm not so sure as you was my reply.


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[Assistant] Well, well," said Mr. Gilmore, we will wait for events.


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[Assistant] At dinner that evening, my last dinner at Limeridge House, it was a hard battle to keep my self-control. I saw that it was not easy for Miss Fairleigh either.


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[Assistant] She gave me her hand as she had done in happier days, but her fingers trembled and her face was pale. Mr. Gilmore kept the conversation going


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[Assistant] And afterwards we went into the sitting room as usual. Miss Fairleigh sat at the piano.


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[Assistant] Shall I play some of those pieces by Mozart that you like? Will you sit in your old chair near me? she asked nervously. As it is my last night, I will, I answered. I'm very sorry you are going.


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[Assistant] She said, almost in a whisper, I shall remember those kind words, Miss Fairleigh. Long after tomorrow has gone, I replied, Don't speak about tomorrow.


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[Assistant] Then she played, and at last it was time to say goodnight.


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[Assistant] Schmuel thinks of an answer to Bruno's question.


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[Assistant] And my brother Youssef in a small flat above the store where Papa makes his watches. Every morning we ate our breakfast together at seven o'clock, and while we went to school,


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[Assistant] Papa mended the watches that people brought to him and made new ones too. I had a beautiful watch that he gave me, but I don't have it anymore.


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[Assistant] Said Schmuel as if this was the most obvious thing in the world. And then one day things started to change, he continued.


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[Assistant] And every time we left the house she told us we had to wear one of these arm bands.


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[Assistant] My father wears one too, said Bruno, on his uniform. It's very nice. It's bright red with a black and white design on it. Using his finger, he drew another design in the dusty ground on his side of the fence. Yes, but they're different, aren't they? said Schmuel.


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[Assistant] No one's ever given me an armband, said Bruno. But I never asked to wear one, said Schmool.


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[Assistant] All the same, said Bruno, I think I'd quite like one. I don't know which one I'd prefer though, your one or Father's.


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[Assistant] Shmuel shook his head and continued with his story. He didn't often think about these things anymore because remembering his old life above the watch shop made him very sad. We wore the armbands for a few months, he said. And then things changed again. I came home one day, and Mama said we couldn't live in our house anymore.


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[Assistant] And the mother and father were always fighting with each other and one of the sons was bigger than me and he hit me even when I did nothing wrong.


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[Assistant] You can't have all left in the one room, said Bruno, shaking his head. That doesn't make any sense. All of us, said Schmuel, nodding his head. Eleven in total.


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[Assistant] Bruno opened his mouth to contradict him again. He didn't really believe that eleven people could live in the same room together, but changed his mind.


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[Assistant] We lived there for some more months, continued Schmuel. All of us in that one room.


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[Assistant] And this part of town was the bad part because it was always noisy and it was impossible to sleep.


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[Assistant] Gretel hits me sometimes, said Bruno. She's my sister, he added, and a hopeless case.


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[Assistant] Then one day the soldiers all came with huge trucks, continued Shmuel, who didn't seem all that interested in Gretel. And everyone was told to leave the houses.


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[Assistant] Lots of people didn't want to, and they hid wherever they could find a place. But in the end I think they caught everyone. And the trucks took us to a train. And the train.


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[Assistant] That's because you all crowded onto one train, said Bruno, remembering the two trains he had seen at the station when he left Berlin. When we came here, there was another one on the other side of the platform, but no one seemed to see it. That was the one we got. You should have got on it too. I don't think we would have been allowed, said Schmuel, shaking his head. We weren't able to get out of our carriage. The doors are at the end, explained Bruno. There weren't any doors, said Schmuel.


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[Assistant] Of course there were doors, said Bruno with a sigh. They're at the end, he repeated, just past the buffet section. There weren't any doors, insisted Shmoor. If there had been, we would all have got off.


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[Assistant] Bruno mumbled something under his breath along the lines of, of course there were. But he didn't say it very loud so Schmuel didn't hear.


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[Assistant] When the train finally stopped, continued Shmuel. We were in a very cold place, and we all had to walk here.


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[Assistant] We had a car, said Bruno out loud now. And mumma was taken away from us. And papa and Josef and I were put into the huts over there. And that's where we've been ever since.


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[Assistant] Shmuel looked very sad when he told this story, and Bruno didn't know why. It didn't seem like such a terrible thing to him, and after all, much the same thing had happened to him. Are there many other boys over there? asked Bruno. Hundreds, said Shmuel. Bruno's eyes opened wide.


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[Assistant] Hundreds, he said, amazed. That's not fair at all. There's no one to play with on this side of the fence, not a single person. We don't play, said Shmoor. Don't play? Why ever not?


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[Assistant] What would we play, he asked, his face looking confused at the idea of it.


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[Assistant] Well, I don't know, say Bruno. All sorts of things. Football, for example. Or exploration. What's the exploration like over there anyway? Any good? Schmuel shook his head and didn't answer. He looked back towards the huts and turned back to Bruno then. He didn't want to ask the next question, but the pains in his stomach made him.


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[Assistant] You don't have any food on you, do you? he asked. Afraid not, said Bruno. I meant to bring some chocolate, but I forgot. Chocolate, said Schmuel very slowly, his tongue moving out from behind his teeth. I've only ever had chocolate once. Only once.


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[Assistant] I think I better get back, he said. Perhaps you can come to dinner with us one evening, said Bruno, although he wasn't sure it was a very good idea. Perhaps, said Schmool, although he didn't sound convinced.


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[Assistant] I could crawl under, said Bruno, reaching down and lifting the wire off the ground.


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[Assistant] In the centre, between the wooden telegraph poles, it lifted quite easily and a boy as small as Bruno could easily fit through. Schmuel watched him do this and backed away nervously.


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[Assistant] And Bruno noticed again just how small and skinny his new friend was.


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[Assistant] He didn't say anything about this, because he knew only too well how unpleasant it was being criticized for something as silly as your height, and the last thing he wanted to do was be unkind to Shmuel.


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[Assistant] I'll come back tomorrow, shouted Bruno to the departing boy, and Schmooler said nothing in reply.


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[Assistant] In fact he started to run off back to the camp leaving Bruno all on his own.


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[Assistant] The more he started to think that that might not be a good idea.


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[Assistant] After all, he reasoned, they might not want me to be friends with him anymore, and if that happens, they might stop me coming out here at all.


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[Assistant] By the time he went through his front door and smelled the beef that was roasting in the oven for dinner,


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[Assistant] After leaving Limeridge, sir, she said, Anne and I went to live in the north east of England, and that's when Anne started to suffer from heart disease. She wasn't at all well.


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[Assistant] But she insisted on travelling to Hampshire because she wanted to speak to Lady Glide. So he went there and stayed in a village near Blackwater.


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[Assistant] Not too close as Anne was so frightened of Supercival.


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[Assistant] Each time Anne went to the lake to try to speak to Lady Glide, I followed her at a distance, but the long walks made her so exhausted that she became ill again.


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[Assistant] So finally I went to the lake in her place to meet Lady Glide.


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[Assistant] She didn't come that day, but a very fat man came instead with a message from her.


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[Assistant] The message was that we should return to London immediately.


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[Assistant] As the Percival would certainly find us if we stayed longer.


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[Assistant] Lady Glide was going to London herself very soon, and if we sent her our address, she would contact us.


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[Assistant] But she didn't, did she? I said, thinking how cleverly Count Fosco had lied to this kind woman.


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[Assistant] No sir, I found lodgings and sent the address to Lady Glide, but after two weeks we still heard nothing. Then one day a lady called in a cab.


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[Assistant] She said she came from Ladyglide who was staying at a hotel and wanted to arrange an interview with Anne.


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[Assistant] I agree to go with this lady to make the arrangement, leaving Anne alone in our lodgings.


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[Assistant] But it was a wicked plot, sir, on the way the lady stopped the cap, saying she just had to collect something from a shop, and would I wait for a few minutes. She never came back, sir.


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[Assistant] I waited for some time and then I hurried home and found Anne gone. Just disappeared.


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[Assistant] I asked Mrs Clemmons to describe this lady, and it seemed clear from her description that it was Madame Fosco.


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[Assistant] So I now knew how the Count had got Anne Catharick to London and separated her from Mrs Clements.


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[Assistant] While I lay unconscious in my illness, I knew nothing of course of the events happening around me.


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[Assistant] It was only much later that I learnt from other people what had happened.


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[Assistant] When I eventually returned to Limeridge, Fanny told me about the letters and the night she had left Blackwater.


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[Assistant] You left me at about seven, Miss, and at nine o'clock I had another visitor, the Countess.


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[Assistant] Yes, I was so surprised. But she was very kind. She saw that I was upset at leaving and insisted on having some tea with me. So I drank my tea and five minutes later I fainted for the first time in my life.


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[Assistant] When I woke up, it was about half an hour later. A lady from the hotel was looking after me, as the Countess had had to go home.


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[Assistant] I checked the letters in my dress, Miss, and they were both there, quite safe.


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[Assistant] And just as you told me in London I posted the letter to Mr. Curl and as soon as I got to Limeridge I delivered the other letter personally to Mr. Fairleigh. I told him all about being dismissed by Sir Percival and everything and what had happened at the hotel


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[Assistant] But well, you don't seem very interested, miss.


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[Assistant] That last piece of information did not surprise me in the least.


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[Assistant] When I went to talk to him, he was full of excuses.


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[Assistant] My nerves, dear Marion, remember my nerves? Yes, of course I will tell you about the letters, but please don't get excited and go around banging doors. Try to stay calm.


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[Assistant] I suppose my letter about Laura upset you, I said. Of course it did, Marion. What was I to do?


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[Assistant] You told me Laura needed to escape from her husband and to come to Limeridge. But suppose Sir Percival had come after her.


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[Assistant] That's why I wrote to you, to beg you to come here first by yourself, to talk the matter over with me.


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[Assistant] Not another word is spoken. I hear the library door close.


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[Assistant] I am wet to the skin, stiff and aching with the cold.


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[Assistant] At first I can't move, but slowly, painfully, I creep back to my window and climb in. As I fall on the floor, I hear the clock strike a quarter past one. Time passes.


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[Assistant] Somehow I managed to get up and put on dry clothes. I am burning hot and shivering with cold. I know I must write down what I have heard.


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[Assistant] So I find paper and pen and write without stopping. The fever rises in me, burning, burning. I open the window for cool air. Eight o'clock, bright sunshine which hammers at my eyes.


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[Assistant] And in my fever I see Count Fosco come into my room and read the pages I have written.


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[Assistant] He smiles. I'm helpless, unable to move, speak, breathe, and I sink into the long, black night of illness.


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[Assistant] Let me go up to Limeridge, I beg my mother. I can bear it better when I have seen her grave.


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[Assistant] It was a warm autumn afternoon when I arrived at the station and walked down the familiar road, seeing in the distance the high white walls of Limeridge House.


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[Assistant] In the churchyard I found the grave and knelt down beside the gravestone, closing my eyes. Oh, my love, my love, my dear, dear love.


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[Assistant] Hours passed, and the evening sunlight threw long shadows among the sleeping places of the dead. I had lost all sense of time kneeling there.


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[Assistant] In the silence I heard the soft sound of footsteps on the grass. I looked up


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[Assistant] Beyond me, standing together by the churchyard wall, were two women, their veils down, hiding their faces.


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[Assistant] They were looking towards the grave, looking towards me, too. They came closer and stopped.


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[Assistant] One of them lifted her veil, and in the still evening light I saw the face of Marian Halcombe, a changed face, thin and pale, full of pain and fear. The woman with the veiled face came towards me slowly.


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[Assistant] Marian Halcombe sank to her knees murmuring, Oh God, help him! Please, please help him, God!


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[Assistant] The veiled woman came on, slowly and silently.


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[Assistant] She stopped by the side of the gravestone, and we stood face to face with the grave between us. Oh God, help him, help him. The woman lifted her veil. In loving memory of Laura, Lady Glide, Laura


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[Assistant] Lady Glide was standing by the gravestone, looking at me over her grave.


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[Assistant] But I say kid, won't that make the drink too strong? That is a lot of liquor. Put it in! Who's making this drink?


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[Assistant] When you've been in the country as long as I have, you will learn that the holidays come only once a year. And without some strong drinks, well, they're like digging for gold and hitting rock. And that is the truth.


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[Assistant] Approved Big Jim Belden who had traveled from his mining camp to observe the holidays in Malamute Kids Cabin.


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[Assistant] Have you forgotten the stuff we gave the Tananas to drink? I guess I did, replied Mammy a kid. Boys, that was something to see.


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[Assistant] That was before your time, Malamute Kid continued as he turned towards Stanley Prince.


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[Assistant] A young mining engineer who had been in the country two years. There were no white women in the country then, and Mason wanted to get married.


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[Assistant] Well, Ruth's father was chief of the Tananas and he objected. The rest of the tribe did too.


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[Assistant] But we gave them some really strong drinks. And you should have seen them try to catch us when we ran away with Ruth. What happened to the girls?


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[Assistant] When they arrived, the ice on the river had started to break up and move, and they could not cross. When they finally got into town, everyone was ready for them. Asked Father Rabot here, he married the couple. The missionary took the pipe he was smoking from his lips.


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[Assistant] Bettles leaped to his feet and began to sing a well-known song. Malamute Kids Drink did its work. The men of the camps and trails felt its warmth.


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[Assistant] Soon jokes and songs and tales of past adventure were told around the table. They were strangers from a dozen lands, but they drank to the good health and fortune of each and all. Then Malamute Kid arose cup in hand,


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[Assistant] And glanced at the window where the frost stood three inches thick. A health to the man on trail this night. May his food be enough. May his dogs keep their legs. May his matches never misfire.


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[Assistant] Suddenly they heard the familiar music of the dog whip and the sound of a sled as it stopped in front of the cabin. Conversation ceased while they waited to see what would happen next.


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[Assistant] It is someone who knows life on the trail. Hear how he cares for his dogs first, and then himself, whispered Malamute Kid to Prince.


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[Assistant] They listened to the harks of pain which told their practiced ears that the stranger was beating back their dogs while he fed his own. Then came the expected knock, sharp and confident. The stranger entered.


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[Assistant] Blinded for a moment by the light, he hesitated at the door.


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[Assistant] He made a handsome picture in his warm clothing of wool and fur. He stood six feet two or three inches tall. His face was pink from the cold, and his hair was frosted with ice.


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[Assistant] On a belt outside his jacket, he wore two guns and a hunting knife. In addition, he carried a dog whip and another gun. As he came forward into the room, they could see that he was very tired. There was a moment when no one spoke. Then his greeting. What cheer, my lads? Put them at ease.


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[Assistant] Although the two men had never met, each had heard of the other and recognized the other at once. The stranger was introduced all around.


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[Assistant] And a cup of liquor was forced upon him before he could explain his presence.


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[Assistant] How long since that sled with three men and eight dogs passed? Yes. About two days ahead. Are you trying to catch them? Yes, they have my team. They stole them from under my nose. But I have gained two days already. I will find them soon. Do you think they will give you a fight? Asked Belden to keep the conversation going.


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[Assistant] Malamute Kid already had the coffee pot on the stove and was busy cooking some meat. Answering the question, the stranger pointed to his guns. When did you leave Dawson? Twelve o'clock. Last night? Belden asked. Today. A murmur of surprise spread around the circle, and it was with good reason. It was then exactly midnight.


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[Assistant] And traveling over 75 miles of rough river trail was an unusual accomplishment in 12 hours. But soon...


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[Assistant] They began talking of other things and the young stranger sat down to eat. As he did so, Malamute Kid studied his face. He was not long in deciding that it was a fair and honest face and that he liked it.


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[Assistant] It was still young but the lines on it had been firmly traced by much work. His blue eyes were calm when resting.


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[Assistant] But they gave the promise of a hard steel-like shine when called into action. The lower part of his face had a firmness that showed an unyielding character. The qualities of the lion could be seen there. But there was no lack of a kind of softness which indicated that emotions were part of his nature.


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[Assistant] So that's how my wife and I got married.


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[Assistant] Said Belden, concluding the exciting tale of his wedding.


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[Assistant] Are there any children waiting for you at home? Asked the stranger, joining the talk again. No. My wife died before any came. That is why I am here.


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[Assistant] Belden tried to light his pipe, not noticing that he had already done so. He was thinking of the past.


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[Assistant] And his eyes took on a strange softness. And so it went from hand to hand. The picture of a woman with a baby at the breast.


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[Assistant] Those who had not yet seen the watch case were most curious. Those who had seen it became silent and thoughtful. They could face famine or quick death, but the picture of a woman and child made women and children of them all.


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[Assistant] I've never seen the child. He is a boy and two years old, said the stranger as his treasure was returned to him. For a moment, he gazed upon it. Then he closed the case and turned away, but not quickly enough to hide the tears. Malamute Kid led him to a bed and told him to get some sleep. Call me at four o'clock in the morning. Don't fail me, were his last words.


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[Assistant] My god, he is a brave one! Prince remarked.


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[Assistant] Three hours of sleep after 75 miles with the dogs. And then he plans to return to the trail again. Who is he, kid? Jack Westendale.


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[Assistant] He's been here almost three years with nothing to reward him except being known as a good worker. He's had much bad luck, too. I never knew him, but Sitka Charlie told me about him.


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[Assistant] It seems unfair that a man with a sweet young wife like his should be wasting his years in this wild place. His problem is that he won't accept defeat. He's had a grub stake twice, but lost it both times. Here the talk was interrupted by petals.


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[Assistant] The effect of the stranger had begun to wear away and soon the merriment had started again.


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[Assistant] Malamute Kid alone seemed unable to forget the stranger and cast many an anxious look at his watch. Once he put on his mittens and cap, and leaving the cabin, went out to his cache.


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[Assistant] Nor could he wait until the hour that had been set by the stranger. He was a quarter of an hour early in waking his guest.


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[Assistant] The young fellow had become quite stiff because of his long hours on the trail.


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[Assistant] He walked painfully out of the cabin to find his dogs already harnessed and everything ready for the start. The company wished him good luck and a short hunt for his enemies, while Father Rubeau hurriedly blessed him. Then everyone ran quickly to the cabin.


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[Assistant] Because it is not good to face such cold with naked ears and hands. They become frozen within moments.


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[Assistant] Malamute Kid went with him to the main trail and there, grasping his hand firmly, gave him advice.


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[Assistant] You will find a hundred pounds of fish eggs on the sled, he said.


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[Assistant] The dogs will go as far on that as with 150 pounds of fish.


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[Assistant] You can't get any food for dog or man until you come to the town of Five Fingers. And that is 200 miles away.


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[Assistant] Be careful to avoid open water on the 30-mile river. How did you know the truth about me? Surely the news can't have traveled ahead of me already. I don't know it, and what's more, I don't want to know it. But you never owned that team you were following. Sid Kacharle sold it to those people last spring. But he told me you were a good man once, and I believe him. I've seen your face. I like it. And I have seen


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[Assistant] Ah hell, start moving for the sake of that wife of yours, will ya? Here, the kid took off his mittens and pulled out his money. No, I don't need it.


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[Assistant] And the tears began to freeze on his face as he grasped Melamute Kid's hand. Then don't spare the dogs! Cut them out of the harnesses as fast as they drop!


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[Assistant] And, don't get your feet wet, was his parting advice.


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[Assistant] No more than a quarter of an hour had passed when the sound of sled bells announced new arrivals.


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[Assistant] The door opened and a policeman of the Northwest Territory entered. He was followed by two dog drivers. Like Westendale, they carried many guns and were very tired.


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[Assistant] The drivers had been born to the trail and endured it easily, but the young policeman could go no further. When did Weston Dare leave? he asked. Did he stop here?


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[Assistant] The question was unnecessary because the tracks in the snow told their own tale too well. Malamute Kid had given Belden a knowing look.


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[Assistant] Belden began to realize what the true situation was and answered accordingly. Oh, he left a long time ago. Come, my man, tell me, the policeman ordered.


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[Assistant] He stole forty thousand dollars from Harry McFarlane's gambling house.


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[Assistant] Who is to stop him from leaving the country if we don't catch him? When did he leave? Every eye hid its excitement because Malamute Kidd had shown them how to act. The young officer met with unknowing faces on every side. Walking toward Prince, he asked the same question.


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[Assistant] Prince gave him an indefinite reply concerning the condition of the trail.


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[Assistant] He had come from Dawson in ten hours and the dogs could travel no further. Malamute Kid forced him to drink a cup of the liquor. Then the policeman turned toward the door, ordering the dog drivers to follow.


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[Assistant] But the drivers did not want to leave the warmth and the promise of rest. They objected strongly. The kid could understand the strange language they spoke and followed their words anxiously. They insisted that the dogs were too tired.


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[Assistant] And that it would be necessary to shoot two of them before the first mile had been traveled. They said it would be better for everyone to rest.


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[Assistant] Would you lend me five dogs? The policeman asked, speaking to Malamute Kid. But the kid shook his head, meaning no.


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[Assistant] I will sign a note of payment for you in the name of the chief of police. I have the authority to do so. Again, the kid refused silently. Then, I must take your dogs in the name of the law. Smiling, the kid glanced at his stock of guns. The policeman, realizing his lack of power, turned toward the door.


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[Assistant] The dog drivers still objected and he spoke to them fiercely calling them women and dogs. The older driver rose to his feet with a curse he promised that he would travel fast


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[Assistant] He would travel so fast, he added, that the policeman's legs would break.


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[Assistant] Then he threatened that he would happily plant him in the snow. The young policeman walked steadily to the door, displaying a freshness that he did not possess. But they all knew and admired his proud effort. Covered with frost, the dogs were sleeping in the snow. It was almost impossible to force them to stand. The tired animals cried as they were whipped because the dog drivers were angry and cruel.


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[Assistant] Not until Babette, the leader dog, was cut from the harness, could they load the sled and start traveling.


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[Assistant] He lied! Worse than an Indian. He is no good. It was easy to see that the men were angry.


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[Assistant] First, because they had been fooled by Westondale, and second, they knew the principles by which men lived in the Northland, and honesty was the chief of these. And to think that we helped him, after knowing what he had done. All eyes turned toward Malamute Kid.


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[Assistant] Who rose from the corner where he had been comforting Babette. He silently emptied the bowl for a final drink.


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[Assistant] It is a cold night boys, a very cold night, was what he said as he began to defend himself. You have all traveled the trail, and know how difficult it is.


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[Assistant] Don't judge a man without knowing his whole story. You have only heard one side.


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[Assistant] A better man than Jack Westendale never ate from the same pot with you and me. Last year he gave his whole earnings.


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[Assistant] $40,000 to Joe Castro to buy a share in a mining company for him. Today, he would be a rich man.


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[Assistant] But while he stayed behind at Circle City to help his sick companion, what did Castrol do?


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[Assistant] He went to McFarland's and lost all the money by gambling. They found him dead in the snow the next day.


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[Assistant] And Jack had made his plans to leave this winter to join his wife and the boy he had never seen. You'll notice that he took exactly what Castro lost. $40,000. He will be out of the country soon. And what are you going to do about it?


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[Assistant] The kid glanced around the circle of his judges. He noted the softening of their faces. Then raised his cup high.


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[Assistant] So, a health to the man on the trail this night. May his food be enough. May his dogs keep their legs. May his matches never misfire. God help him. Good fortune go with him.


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[Assistant] And bad luck, follow the Northwest police! cried Bettles to the crash of the empty cups.


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[Assistant] Anyway, today is Friday, so I'm going to give you the keys and my prediction to the Commander's Packers game for Sunday. Before I get there, a couple, a couple news and notes. So let's start with, I told you, I told you I would check out some of the hot route situations and the blitzes and going back to that first


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[Assistant] Third down blitz by Chicago where they ran an all out zero, cover zero blitz, uhm, call.


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[Assistant] So on that one, there was, the receivers did not adjust and it looks like it should be an easy adjustment. The middle of the field is wide open. You make an adjustment. It could be a huge play if you just send McClellan on a slant on that one. They didn't carry the route out. Let's get set. What happens?


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[Assistant] The Bears, give the Bears credit. On a short week, they ran some of them that they had not run all season. That was the step number one. So they weren't ready for to use their hot calls in that situation because the Bears hadn't shown it. So they


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[Assistant] They weren't ready for that. So you can blame whatever you want short week. I give the bears a lot of credit for running, for breaking a tendency on a short week and it worked. They do have the ability to run those, to run a hot rod in those situations. So my guess is in the future, you have something called off that. So if you start to see it, you make an adjustment.


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[Assistant] Uhm, but that is available to them. I also think, and I had one person tell me that,


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[Assistant] This is one area where Taylor Heinecke can help him. He has a deeper familiarity with this office. He's been in it longer. So in that situation last week, the feeling was perhaps if he had been out there, he may have signaled something to McLaurin.


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[Assistant] That's where the familiarity comes. You see that a lot with quarterbacks.


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[Assistant] You know, with Mahomes and Kelsey, now those are two elite guys.


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[Assistant] But they also have a lot of experience together and so I think that's where that, that can help you.


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[Assistant] Cosme still has that club on his left hand. Don't know, you know, don't know if he will play on Sunday night as I tape this. We don't know the injury report yet. What I do know is there's a lot of talk about him going to guard.


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[Assistant] The ideal time to make that move is in the offseason. Give the guy a full offseason to get comfortable in there, etc. However, it is something that they would consider doing during the season if, if, if that club wasn't on his left hand. I think because the way you have to


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[Assistant] That if you're not comfortable, if your hand is bothering you, it's going to be an issue.


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[Assistant] So you don't want to put him in that situation, but I do think his future probably is at right guard at some point. When that is, I don't know. Uhm, you know, I think it's also, if Sadiq Charles were playing better, it wouldn't be an issue, but there's too much inconsistencies at that spot. And I, you know, when, when you look at a line, the three, the top three positions on the line,


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[Assistant] For a lot of coaches will be left tackle, center, right guard, right guard matching up against three tech a lot. So that's where, you know, that's why I think I could see him eventually moving down there. When that happens, I don't know. Finally, I'm William Jackson, the third, the cornerback.


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[Assistant] And the trade deadline is November 1st. Yes, he's on the trading block. We know that.


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[Assistant] What they'll be able to get for them, I think I told you last time, talking to somebody outside the organization.


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[Assistant] Probably sixth or seventh. I think that is the expectation inside as well.


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[Assistant] I do think some teams will be reluctant to give up much, much of anything for him, just because I think the feeling is that they, they feel like Washington would end up having to part ways with him regardless. Uhm, I don't know that that would be the case. IR is an absolute, absolute, absolute, uhm, option here and you can keep him around and in case you need him later in the year.


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[Assistant] Playing and you can see that you see that in the communication. There was one time where.


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[Assistant] Motion against the bears, go motion retrievers from left to right into a bunch and you see wild goose go with the motion, the motion sets up outside on this look, it triggers something and he tells.


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[Assistant] He gets Saint-Juice to go cover the outside guy, his motion guy, and then Wild Goose takes the point and they play it very well. So I think there's that communication helps and I think that's where Jackson really struggled. So there you go. Let's get to the keys and prediction of the game.


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[Assistant] Number one key, play well in the red zone. You gotta play well in the red zone. Green Bay, they know that Green Bay is going to give up some yards on defense, but where they tighten up is in the red zone. They rank eighth. They're tied for eighth, including with Washington in the red zone defense.


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[Assistant] So they know they're gonna have chances, but the Packers do a good job of playing like almost like an umbrella look back there in the red zone. Nothing fancy, but they create tight window throwing lanes. And I think with this offensive line against that pass rush,


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[Assistant] I think you can, you, those tight throwing lanes could result in some big plays the other way if you're not careful. So I think that's where you have to play well and be careful down there because again, with that pass rush with this line with the way he's blocking.


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[Assistant] Uhm, and throwing in tight windows, it can be a difficult, it can be a bad combination for a team. But I also looked at that because when you look at what Washington didn't do last year up there in the red zone, it was not play well.


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[Assistant] They actually moved the ball very well in that game at Lambeau, 24 to 10 loss, but they moved the ball well. It was the red zone where they struggled. And then one of the times it was Heineken diving, which by common sense should have been a touchdown. By rule it was not.


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[Assistant] And then they failed on the fourth down. And then there was another fourth down where they failed where Ricky Seals Jones, um, has his guy, I think he had to run the route just a little bit better, um, to, to kind of keep coming up.


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[Assistant] Uhm, so you, but that's another failed opportunity. And then there were a couple other blown chances in that game where there was a fourth down, I think it was from like the 27 where they had to throw to McLaurin and it was an out. But McLaurin beats the guy off the ball. He beat him badly into fade or touchdown, boom, there you go.


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[Assistant] That was not the call in the play. The play was a slant go come back.


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[Assistant] And on that play, now they know that all McCormick do is throw up the hand. Just keep going. I'm going to keep going.


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[Assistant] But then he had, that was not the option. So he had to run the route. The defensive back who was beaten actually ends up in great position because he had been beaten, but they didn't have the option to do that. Now they do. So anyway, another missed opportunity and you know, you can't have those against a good team like that. So play well in the red zone.


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[Assistant] You need to exploit that. And the feeling is, listen, last year, you heard Rob Demofsky tell me this on the podcast on Thursday. Last year, they weren't good against the run either. It's just that they were always, they were playing from the head a lot.


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[Assistant] Now they're not. Now the rush defense has become a problem. They're used to playing from ahead and that means that, you know, this is now a problem. So what a lot of times what these guys will see is that Green Bay gets very vertical with their front.


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[Assistant] What that leads to is some seals and some traps and the ability to create cutback lanes. If you watch their film, like if you press that hole, so Bryan Robinson and Antonio Gibson, you press that hole, those cutback lanes are going to be there.


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[Assistant] And then it's just a matter of how much yards you're going to create off that. And I saw some runs with the Jets, where I'm like, if you create, if you actually have run with better vision on this play,


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[Assistant] So I think that's the big key. So press the hole, exploit that front. Uhm, not that their defensive front is, is bad. I just think that you need to exploit that, uhm, that ability to get them upfield, run some seals and traps off that.


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[Assistant] I think Robinson could have a solid game, but a guy like Gibson could have a couple big runs. In fact, if you remember last year in Green Bay, he almost had one really long run, but he got tripped by one of his own linemen, I think it was. And then the next play, Heineken gets a sack fumble. So that ability will be there. So watch for those.


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[Assistant] On the other side of the ball, and the reason I say exploit the front, the front, not just defense, but offense, because that offensive line is struggle. And...


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[Assistant] They've struggled with stunts, and Washington has done a better job running stunts this season under defensive line coach Jeff Scanina. It's not a coincidence that they're doing better with him in there than Sam Mills, and that's a move that should have been made in the offseason. It wasn't.


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[Assistant] But they're now actually benefiting because the line I think is playing pretty well and they're running those stunts well. One thing Green Bay does and I think it leaves them susceptible to some, some issues with the stunts is they do take, they do have a lot of times wider splits with their line.


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[Assistant] So it allows some gaps to be created if you run those stunts well.


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[Assistant] And what that has done is that because they're a little bit better with it, because they are better with it, then, then Del Rio is calling for those, for that action more and it's led to some good plays. So you've got to take advantage of that.


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[Assistant] Alright, so the last one is Container and Rogers. Now, I'm gonna go start with that by looking at the run game because Aaron Jones and AJ, excuse me, yeah, Aaron Jones and AJ Dillon are both good running backs and Jones is averaging 5.84 yards per carry. Washington did a good job against them last year, but the pass game really hurt them.


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[Assistant] You better take care of those guys first. Cause if you're not.


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[Assistant] Probably from Rogers is averaging a career low in yards per pass attempt.


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[Assistant] He's not successful throwing down the field. It's under 30% success if there's completion percentage on air throws of air yards of 20 yards or more.


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[Assistant] Last year, I think it was in the forties and that may be around 45%. So that's become an issue for them. But the way you got to contain Rogers, you got to keep them in the pocket. It's very hard to do, right? Because we've seen.


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[Assistant] If you're not disciplined on one rush, he's going, the guy like that's going to find it and get outside and create a big play, but you've got to limit those big plays because that's been a huge, as you know, a huge problem for this defense is both that playing with that level of discipline all the time and then surrendering to the big plays when you don't.


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[Assistant] And they don't have, like, one thing this offense, you don't want to give that Green Bay offense is the ability to play from ahead because then that's, it plays into the, plays into their hands, both sides of the ball and the pass rush and with their ability to run the ball and you don't want that.


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[Assistant] One of the ways you contain Rodgers, get ahead of this team, and then start to control the game.


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[Assistant] That's an easier said than done sort of situation because they haven't been getting ahead of teams.


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[Assistant] To guide teams and whatever that they shouldn't be doing, so.


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[Assistant] There you go, those are my keys to the game. Now for my prediction. Listen, when I look at this game.


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[Assistant] I think the two things that he can help them with is the mobility and the familiarity.


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[Assistant] With Carson, you got the big arm and all that, but he's not, he's not as comfortable yet in this offense. And he's not, you know, the whole thing is use the entire field. Well, they haven't been doing that lately.


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[Assistant] So if you're not doing that, you get the guy in there who's got some mobility and the familiarity. So you get the ball out quicker. One of the knocks on Wentz has been holding the ball way too long.


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[Assistant] As well, whereas Heineken doesn't have that, I think he has a better sense of who he is.


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[Assistant] Go to that four game winning streak as proof of what they need to do. That's run the ball and play smart with Heineken. Uhm, it's there. So like Green Bay's not playing well, however.


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[Assistant] I felt like they played a couple solid games, they just didn't win. They played better in Denver, they didn't win, they didn't convert in the red zone. Played better in Green Bay, defensively especially, but they didn't win because they couldn't convert in the red zone. But right now they're just really inconsistent on both sides.


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[Assistant] And I think the defense is playing better. I think the defense is playing solid, but can the offense give them enough? Even, you know, with the Heineken boost, is that going to be enough if he gives them a boost with the energy or whatever?


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[Assistant] Uhm, is that going to be enough? I don't know, because they're not playing with too many penalties, too much undisciplined play.


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[Assistant] And I think until we see them playing better consistently, I think it's hard to pick them in a game where the other quarterback is Aaron Rodgers.


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[Assistant] That's when you look at the Packers, they definitely have issues that they can exploit. I could see them pull the upside. It would not shock me at all.


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[Assistant] But I'm going to go with the Packers 23-17 because before I start picking this team again, I want to see them play better and they just haven't done that consistently enough.


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[Assistant] Can Heineken give him a boost with his legs? We'll find out Sunday. Anyway, that's it for me. I will be back Sunday after the Commander's Packers game with the voice of the Commander's, Graham Weinstein. We'll wrap it all up for you and I'll talk to you next time.


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[Assistant] Jack London, to build a fire and other stories.


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[Assistant] The only noises heard were made by the harnesses and the bells of the leader dogs. The men and dogs were tired and made no sound. The trail was heavy with new fallen snow and they had come far.


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[Assistant] The snow fell gently through the quiet air in tiny shapes of delicate design. It was warmer than usual and the men were comfortable. Myers and Bettles had raised their ear coverings and Malamute Kidd had removed his mittens.


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[Assistant] The dogs had been tired early in the afternoon, but now they began to show new life. Among the more lively ones, there was some restlessness.


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[Assistant] Finally, the leader of the first sled barked quickly and threw himself against the harness. The others followed.


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[Assistant] The sleds leaped forward and the men held tightly to their guide poles.


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[Assistant] They had forgotten how tired they were and now shouted with delight at the new effort of the dogs. The dogs replied with joyful barks. Now they were speeding through the gathering darkness.


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[Assistant] Go, go! the men cried, each in turn as their sled suddenly left the main path. Then came a short race to the lighted window, which told its own story of the home cabin, the roaring stove, and the steaming pots of tea. But the home cabin had already been entered.


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[Assistant] The whole team of sled dogs resting in the yard barked in anger at the approach of the newcomer. The cabin door was thrown open and a man appeared.


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[Assistant] He stepped outside knee deep among the angry beasts and calmed them with light blows from his dog whip. After that, the men shook hands.


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[Assistant] And in this way was the Malamute Kid welcomed to his own cabin by a stranger.


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[Assistant] Stanley Prince, who should have welcomed him and who was responsible for the warmth of the stove, was busy with his guests. There were nearly a dozen of them.


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[Assistant] They served the British Queen in this faraway land in the enforcement of her law and the delivery of her mail. They were from many races and tribes.


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[Assistant] But their common life had made them all a special type. A lean type.


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[Assistant] With travel-hardened muscles and sun-brown faces and untroubled souls. They had seen life and done deeds and experienced adventure, but they did not know it. And they were enjoying the comforts. Two of them were lying on Malamute Kid's bed.


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[Assistant] Singing songs which their French ancestors sang in the days when they first entered the Northwest land and married its Indian women.


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[Assistant] In a corner two men of mixed blood repaired harnesses and talked of the old days in the northwest.


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[Assistant] Jokes were told and the great difficulties of trail and river were spoken of lightly and with lack of concern. Prince was delighted with these uncrowned heroes who thought of great and exciting happenings as the ordinary manner of life. He passed his precious tobacco freely among them. They in turn recalled story after story for his special interest.


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[Assistant] When the talk ended and the travelers unrolled their packs of furs for sleeping.


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[Assistant] Prince questioned his companion for further information.


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[Assistant] Malamute Kid told of the probable origin of each of the guests. Prince was satisfied. Then he added, And that fellow near the stove, I am sure he can't talk English. He has not opened his mouth all night. You are wrong. He knows English well. Did you look at his eyes when he listened?


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[Assistant] But he's a different type from the others. When they talk their own languages, you could see he did not understand. I have been wondering myself what he is. We will test him. Throw a couple of sticks into the stove, Malamute Kid commanded.


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[Assistant] Speaking loudly and looking directly at the man in question. He obeyed immediately. He learned to obey somewhere, Prince said in a low tone. Malamute Kidd nodded in agreement. He removed his socks and hung them on the stove to dry. When do you expect to get to Dawson? He asked the stranger. The man looked at him a moment before replying. They say it is


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[Assistant] Almost one hundred miles, maybe two days. His manner of speech was somewhat strange, but he had no difficulty in finding the right words. Have you been in the country before? No. Northwest Territory? Yes. Were you born there? No. Well, where were you born then? You're none of these.


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[Assistant] Malamute Kid swept his hand over the dog drivers and the two policemen who were sleeping in Prince's bed. Where did you come from? I have seen faces like yours before, although I can't remember exactly where. I know you. He replied, not answering Malamute Kid's questions. Where? Ever see me? No. I knew your friend. It was at Pastelic.


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[Assistant] A long time ago, he gave me food. He asked me if I had seen you, Malamute Kid. Did you hear him mention me?


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[Assistant] Malamute Kid darkened the room and moved under the blankets with Prince. Well, what is he? I don't know, he avoided my questions, but he is a fellow who makes you curious. Everyone was discussing him eight years ago.


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[Assistant] He came down from the north in the middle of winter, many thousand miles from here. He was traveling as though the devil were following him. No one ever learned where he came from, but he must have come far.


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[Assistant] He was badly travel-worn when he got food from the Swedish missionary on Gullivin Bay and asked the way south. We heard of this afterward. Then he left the shoreline.


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[Assistant] He met with bad weather, snowstorms, and strong winds, but he succeeded where a thousand other men would have died. He landed at Pastelik. He had lost all of his dogs, except two, and was nearly starved. He was so anxious to travel further that your friend Pastelik gave him the food he needed.


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[Assistant] However, he could not let him have any dogs because he was waiting to start a journey himself.


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[Assistant] This stranger from the north was too wise to travel without animals. And he waited in Pastelik several days.


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[Assistant] On his sled he had some animal skins, the skins of sea otters, which were worth their weight in gold.


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[Assistant] It was also at Pastelik a Russian trader who had plenty of dogs. Well, they did not talk very long, but when the stranger started south again, he had a dog team. The trader had the otter skins. I saw them, and they were magnificent. Those dogs cost the stranger plenty, and he knew the value of sea otter. He was an Indian of some sort, and the little he talked,


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[Assistant] After the ice left the sea, word came from Nunavac Island that he had gone there for food. Then he dropped from sight. And this is the first heard of him in eight years. Now where did he come from and what was he doing there? And why did he come from there? He is Indian. Where he has been, nobody knows. There is another mystery of the north for you, prince. Thanks, but


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[Assistant] I have too many now, he replied. Malamute Kid was already asleep.


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[Assistant] But the younger man gazed straight up through the thick darkness. And when he did sleep, his brain continued to work.


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[Assistant] Throughout that night, he too wandered through the white unknowns, struggled with the dogs on endless trails, and saw men live and work and die like men.


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[Assistant] The next morning, hours before daylight, the dog drivers and policemen started for Dawson. But they reappeared a week later, burdened with letters. However, their dogs had been replaced by fresh ones. But they were dogs.


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[Assistant] The man had expected some sort of a pause in which to rest.


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[Assistant] But nevertheless, they dried their socks and smoked their evening pipes with as much good spirit as on their former visit. As might be expected, one or two of them talked about deserting the Queen's service.


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[Assistant] They talked about the possibility of crossing the untraveled rocky mountains to the east, thus returning to their homes. He of the Otterskins seemed very restless and showed little interest in the discussion.


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[Assistant] Finally he drew Malamute Kid aside and talked for some time in low tones. Prince watched them curiously and the mystery deepened when he saw them put on caps and mittens and go outside.


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[Assistant] Weighed 60 ounces of gold and put them in the Indian's bag. Then the chief of the dog drivers joined them and further business was completed with him. The next day the entire group went up the river.


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[Assistant] I didn't know what to think of it, said Malamute Kid in answer to Prince's questions.


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[Assistant] The poor fellow wanted to get out of the service for some reason or other. It seemed the most important one to him. Although, he would not tell me what it was. You understand, it is like the army.


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[Assistant] He signed for two years and the only way to be free was to buy himself out.


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[Assistant] He could not desert and then stay here, and he was determined to remain in the country. He had decided when he arrived in Dawson, he said, but no one knew him, and he had no money. I was the only person he'd spoken two words with.


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[Assistant] He discussed his problem with an official and arranged for his release from service if he could get the money from me as a loan.


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[Assistant] He said he would repay me within the year, and if I wanted, he would tell me something that would make me rich. And couldn't he talk? When he got me outside, he was ready to weep.


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[Assistant] He got down on his knees in the snow and begged until I pulled him up.


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[Assistant] He says he has worked to accomplish something special for years and years and could not endure having his hopes destroyed now. I asked him what he had been working for, but he would not say. I never saw a man act like that in my life. And when I said that I would let him have the money, I had to pull him up out of the snow again. I told him to consider it as a grub stake, but no, he did not want that.


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[Assistant] Now a man who puts his life and time against a grub stake ordinarily finds it difficult to share half of what he finds. There is something more to this prince. We will hear of him if he stays in the country. And if he does not?


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[Assistant] The cold weather had come with its long nights before anything was heard of Malamute Kids' grub stick. And then, one cold morning in early January,


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[Assistant] A heavily loaded dog train pulled into the yard of his cabin.


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[Assistant] He of the Otterskins was there and with him walked a man such as the gods have almost forgotten how to create. It was Axel Gunderson. Men never talk of luck without mentioning his name.


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[Assistant] Tales of strength and daring were never told around the campfire without recalling him. And when the talk seemed finished,


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[Assistant] They created him from the pattern of men who were born when the world was young. He towered all of seven feet tall. His neck and arms were those of a giant.


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[Assistant] To carry as 300 pounds of bones and muscle as snowshoes were almost twice as big as those of other men.


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[Assistant] His large face and sharp eyes of palest blue had the look of a man who lived by the law of strength.


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[Assistant] His snow-covered yellow hair fell far down his coat, made from the skin of a bear.


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[Assistant] As he walked down the narrow trail in advance of the dogs, there seemed to be something of the seaman in his manner.


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[Assistant] And he brought the end of his dog whip against Malamute Kid's door, as one who knew how to command. Prince was making bread.


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[Assistant] As he did so, he cast many a glance at the three guests.


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[Assistant] Three guests of a sort which might never come under the roof of a man in a lifetime. The Indian, who Malamute Kidd now called Ulysses, still interested him.


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[Assistant] But his attention was mainly divided between Axel Gunderson and Axel Gunderson's wife. The day of traveling had tired her.


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[Assistant] Because she had lived in the comfortable cabins during the many days since her husband had mastered the wealth of the frozen north, she rested against his great breast like a delicate flower against a wall.


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[Assistant] She replied occasionally to Malamute Kids friendly talk.


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[Assistant] And she stirred Prince's blood strangely with her deep dark eyes. For Prince was a man, and healthy, and had seen few women in many months.


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[Assistant] She was older than he and an Indian besides.


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[Assistant] And she knew most of the things the women of his race knew.


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[Assistant] And she knew much more than most women of the business of men.


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[Assistant] She could make a meal of sun dried fish, or make a bed in the snow.


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[Assistant] She also spoke in detail of dinners where many different foods were served.


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[Assistant] Prince saw her laughing eyes as she read the rules of the camp. These rules had been listed by bettles and were remarkable for their simple, direct humor.


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[Assistant] Prince always turned them toward the wall before the arrival of ladies. However, it was too late now. This then was the wife of Axel Gunderson.


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[Assistant] A woman whose name and fame had traveled with her husband's hand in hand through all the Northland. At the table she was there equal in talking with the men. Her husband, slower in wit, did not join the discussion. He sat looking at her. He was very proud of her. His every look and action


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[Assistant] Revealed the important place she occupied in his life.


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[Assistant] He of the Otterskins ate silently, forgotten in all the gay talk. Long before the others had finished eating, he pushed his chair away from the table and went outside among the dogs.


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[Assistant] Soon his traveling companions drew on their mittens and fur clothing and followed him.


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[Assistant] And the sled slipped along the hard-packed Yukon trail as easily as if it had been ice. Ulysses led the first sled.


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[Assistant] With the second came Prince and Axel Gunderson's wife.


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[Assistant] It is only a guess, kid, said Axel Gunderson.


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[Assistant] That Indian has never been there, but he tells a good story. He shows a map I heard of years ago. I would like to have you go with us, but he is a strange one, and he said no one else was to be brought in.


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[Assistant] But when I come back, you will hear about it first, and I will stake your claim beside mine.


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[Assistant] And I will give you a half share in the town which will be built besides.


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[Assistant] No, no, he cried as Malamute Kid tried to interrupt. I am the leader here, and before I have finished, I will need someone else to help me.


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[Assistant] This is a big thing, man. It will be the same as the building of the town of Cripple Creek.


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[Assistant] I have heard of this place before, and so have you.


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[Assistant] We will build a town. There will be good waterways, steamship lines, a big trade, and perhaps a railroad. Listen now. You keep quiet about this until I return.


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[Assistant] The sled stopped where the trail crossed the mouth of the Stuart River.


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[Assistant] An unbroken sea of snow stretched away into the unknown east. The snow shoes were taken from the sleds.


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[Assistant] Axel Gunderson shook hands and stepped to the front.


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[Assistant] His great shoes sinking deep into the surface of the snow. His wife joined the line behind the last sled.


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[Assistant] Showing long practice in the art of handling snowshoes. The stillness was broken with cheerful goodbyes. The dogs barked.


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[Assistant] He of the Otterskins brought a difficult dog under control with his whip. An hour later.


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[Assistant] Moving in a long straight line across a great sheet of paper.


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[Assistant] One night, many weeks later, Malamute Kid and Prince were working on some puzzles from the torn page of an ancient magazine. The Kid had returned from a visit to his properties and was resting before starting on a long moose hunt. Prince, too, had been traveling nearly all winter and was eager for a week of cabin life.


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[Assistant] Somebody knocked at the door twice before Malamute Kid could say, come in.


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[Assistant] The door opened slowly. Something fell into the room. Prince looked once and jumped to his feet.


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[Assistant] The look of terror in his eyes caused Malamute Kid to turn quickly. He too was shocked. Although he had seen bad things before. The thing moved blindly toward them.


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[Assistant] Prince edged away until he came to the nail from which hung his gun. My God, what is it? He whispered to Malamute Kid. I don't know. It seems to be a case of freezing and starvation, replied the kid, moving away.


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[Assistant] Be careful, it might be mad, he warned after closing the door. The thing advanced to the table. The flame of the lamp caught the attention of its eyes. It was delighted and began to laugh. Then suddenly he, for it was a man,


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[Assistant] Leaned back and began to sing a song such as Men of the Sea sing.


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[Assistant] Pull me boys, pull! He stopped as quickly as he had begun.


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[Assistant] Then with a wolfish sound, he started toward the shelf where the meat was stored, and before they could stop him,


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[Assistant] He was tearing with his teeth at some uncooked pieces hung to dry. The struggle was fierce between him and Malamute Kid, but his mad strength left him as suddenly as it had come and he weakly dropped the meat. They sat him on a small table where he lay with half his body across the table.


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[Assistant] The creature had eyes that were bright with a strange light. It was very little skin on his face. The face had little likeness to the human form. Frost after frost had bitten deeply into the skin. Its surface was of a bloody black color, with lines where the red flesh showed through.


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[Assistant] His clothes of animal skins were dirty and torn.


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[Assistant] Malamute Kid pointed to where the animal skins had been cut away, strip by strip. A sure sign of famine.


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[Assistant] Because life could be maintained for many days by boiling and eating the skins when all other food was gone.


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[Assistant] Who are you? said Malamute Kid slowly and clearly. The man did not appear to hear. Where do you come from?


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[Assistant] Ship come down the river. He sang an answer. No doubt he did come down the river, the kid said, shaking him in an attempt to start a flow of talk.


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[Assistant] But the man screamed when touched, pressing a hand to his side in pain. He rose slowly to his feet, half leaning on the table.


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[Assistant] His voice weakened and he was falling when Malamute Kid grasped him by the arm and shouted, Who? Who would not come?


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[Assistant] Malamute Kid feared that she might be dying not far from the cabin. He shook the man fiercely, repeating again and again, Where is Unga? Who is Unga?


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[Assistant] The tired head dropped upon the table, and Malamute Kid could not wake it again.


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[Assistant] It is Ulysses, he said quietly, throwing the bag of gold dust on the table. Come. We must get him between the blankets. He is Indian.


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[Assistant] He will recover and will live to tell his story besides.


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[Assistant] And forty skins of one sort of seal. Half as many of another.


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[Assistant] And ten sorts of bear which I killed in the woods in the spring.


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[Assistant] There were blankets and clothes which I got from trading with the people who lived to the east.


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[Assistant] Who had traded with the people who lived farther beyond in the East?


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[Assistant] And I looked upon the pile of Yashnush and laughed, because I was the chief in Akatan.


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[Assistant] My wealth was greater than the wealth of all my young men, and my fathers had done deeds and given laws.


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[Assistant] Looking out of the corner of my eye at the house of the mother of Unga, my offer stood untouched.


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[Assistant] But in the morning the pile was again there, open to the laughter of all men. The mother of Unga was clever.


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[Assistant] And I grew angry at the shame in which I stood before my people.


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[Assistant] And I brought up my big boat which had the value of twenty smaller ones. And in the morning, there was no pile.


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[Assistant] And the people that lived far to the east came to eat the food of the feast.


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[Assistant] Unga was older than I by the age of four sons, according to our manner of counting the years. I was only a young lad, but then I was a chief, and the son of a chief, and it was not important.


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[Assistant] As we prepared for the feast, a ship with large sails came into sight. It appeared that she was having trouble.


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[Assistant] Because the men were working with all their strength to keep the water from flooding her. On the deck stood a mighty man, watching the water deepen, and giving commands with a voice like thunder. His eyes were as blue as the waters, and his hair was yellow, like the grain of a southern harvest.


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[Assistant] In those years we had seen ships from afar, but this was the first to come to the beach of Akatan. The feast was broken, and the women and children hid in the houses. The men waited with spears in their hands.


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[Assistant] But when the ship touched the beach, the strange men did not notice us.


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[Assistant] The strangers pushed the ship into deep water and then joined us. They brought gifts and were friendly. I welcomed them.


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[Assistant] I gave them small gifts as I gave to all the guests, because it was my wedding day. And he with the yellow hair was there.


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[Assistant] So tall and strong that one expected to see the earth shake with the fall of his feet. He looked much at Unga and stayed until the sun went away and the stars came out. Then he returned to his ship. After that, I took Unga by the hand and led her to my own house. And there was singing and much laughing.


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[Assistant] Then the people left us alone and went home.


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[Assistant] The last noise had not died when the chief of the sea wanderers came to the door.


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[Assistant] He had with him black bottles from which we drank and became merry. You see, I was only a young lad.


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[Assistant] And had lived all my days on the edge of the world.


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[Assistant] And he with the yellow hair looked upon her straight and long.


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[Assistant] And he piled before me more wealth than there was in all Akhatan. There were guns both large and small, and bright axes.


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[Assistant] And tools of steel and strange things which I had never seen.


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[Assistant] That unga was to go away with him in his ship. The blood of my father's flamed hot in me.


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[Assistant] And I tried to attack him with my knife, but the spirit in the bottles had stolen the life from my arm.