. On the "White Pass" pay-roll . on the trail. Any man who bumpedup against either Heney or Hislop in sucha mood was likely to meet with trouble. But for a long time they had no suspicionof it, and merely thought he did very wellindeed. Of course no word was spoken be-tween them of all this, but gradually itdawned on Heney and Hislop that Jack,whose performances they had been watchingwith pride and interest, was in reality goingjealous of them and anxious in a perfectlyfriendly way to establish his supremacy onthe trail. This state of affairs could not a word said—all felt that th
. On the "White Pass" pay-roll . on the trail. Any man who bumpedup against either Heney or Hislop in sucha mood was likely to meet with trouble. But for a long time they had no suspicionof it, and merely thought he did very wellindeed. Of course no word was spoken be-tween them of all this, but gradually itdawned on Heney and Hislop that Jack,whose performances they had been watchingwith pride and interest, was in reality goingjealous of them and anxious in a perfectlyfriendly way to establish his supremacy onthe trail. This state of affairs could not a word said—all felt that the ques-tion had to be settled when they started ontheir last trail together in this world, onemorning early in February, 1899. The snow was deep, the trail was heavy,the cold was bitter, the wind on the summitof the Pass was fierce, almost preventingprogress at times, part of the time there wasa blizzard, and at all times the trail wassteep. Jack had never seen Heney and His-lop in real earnest before nor ever come across[52I. Hexey and Hislop ox Wixter Trail
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