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IN CHICAGO THEY HADbeen afraid of Tom's mother's lawyers, and in Seattle they were always looking overtheir shoulders lest her detectives track them down. alive, and of how their courage keptthem afloat, but Tom said something else: 'It was Missy who did it. Books arewritten and study kits provided, and one company even sells equipment for buildingan igloo. s, all to be read in the same voice, as interesting as theplays, but believe me, if I fail, the fault is mine and not Shakespeare's.

There, on the afternoon of 17 August 1896, they sluiced the gravelfrom their pan and found settled on the bottom gold flakes and nuggets worth fourdollars. Dawson, it seemed to Missy, was a place in which thousands ofmen stood around doing nothing and in which everything was for sale. He died brave. Gangs of ruthless thieves had devised a bizarre method of stealing such gold: theyscouted saloons until some lone miner rolled home, but since they