[Burning Daylight by Jack London]@TWC D-Link bookBurning Daylight CHAPTER V 14/21
They shook hands. "You kill um dat damn Indian," Kama said.
"Sawee, Daylight? You kill um." "He'll sure last as far as Pelly," Daylight grinned. Kama shook his head doubtfully, and rolled over on his side, turning his back in token of farewell. Daylight won across Chilcoot that same day, dropping down five hundred feet in the darkness and the flurrying snow to Crater Lake, where he camped.
It was a 'cold' camp, far above the timber-line, and he had not burdened his sled with firewood.
That night three feet of snow covered them, and in the black morning, when they dug themselves out, the Indian tried to desert.
He had had enough of traveling with what he considered a madman.
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