Outing . was found on theYukon, Captain Healy was ready for busi-ness with a fleet of river steamers. Bythis time he was an old timer in Alaska,and was considered the best posted manin the territory. It was he who suggested to Baron deLobel, the French engineer, the monumen-tal idea of The Trans-Alaskan-Siberian-Railway, with a tunnel beneath Behring Straits. Captain Healy is not a visionary,and he believes that some day will see amillion population in Alaska, and the browntundras of Eastern Siberia covered with avast and busy multitude of settlers get-ting rich from the mineral deposits. Then
Outing . was found on theYukon, Captain Healy was ready for busi-ness with a fleet of river steamers. Bythis time he was an old timer in Alaska,and was considered the best posted manin the territory. It was he who suggested to Baron deLobel, the French engineer, the monumen-tal idea of The Trans-Alaskan-Siberian-Railway, with a tunnel beneath Behring Straits. Captain Healy is not a visionary,and he believes that some day will see amillion population in Alaska, and the browntundras of Eastern Siberia covered with avast and busy multitude of settlers get-ting rich from the mineral deposits. Thenthe railroad will become a reality. Captain Healy has lived to see morestartling dreams than this come true. Apioneer who has beheld great states builtout of a wilderness wherein he fought sav-ages in his youth, is entitled to hold bigconception of the future greatness of theundeveloped countries which he has helpedto wrest from the frontier. 349 THE WAY OF A MAN BY EMERSON HOUGH DRAWING BY GEORGE WRIGHT. CHAPTER XXXVIII FACE TO FACE DID not care to see Col-onel Meriwether on busi-ness matters, importantas these were. He passedon through to his seatin Albermarle withoutstopping in our valleylonger than over night. I wrote a letter tomy agents at Huntington, with the requestthat they should inform Colonel Meri-wether at once on the business situation,since now he was in touch by mail. Thealternative was offered him of taking overmy fathers interests through these credi-tors, accepting them as partners, or pur-chasing their rights; or of doing what myfather had planned to do for him, whichwas to care individually for the joint ac-count, and then to allot each partner adivided interest, carrying a clear title. All these business matters I explainedfully to my mother. Then, seeing it couldnot be evaded, I told her also what hadoccurred at the village the night now, I said, I am soon to marryGrace Sheraton. She sat silent for a longtime. Thee is like thy father, she said
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