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Burning Daylight

CHAPTER VIII
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He was still alive, and most likely would be saved, but how came it that he was not lying dead across the boat on top the ice-rim?
Then he recollected the great final effort he had made.

But why had he made it?
he asked himself.

It had not been fear of death.
He had not been afraid, that was sure.

Then he remembered the hunch and the big strike he believed was coming, and he knew that the spur had been his desire to sit in for a hand at that big game.

And again why?
What if he made his million?
He would die, just the same as those that never won more than grub-stakes.


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