I understand she teaches at a Toronto school." "She must have some talent to get a post there," Scott remarked when he had asked the name of the school.

Then he paused and vaguely indicated the North.

"Well, it's a romantic story! Nobody knows yet what there is in the rocks up yonder, but we have heard of other prospectors striking pay-dirt and making nothing of their discovery.

Rumors about mysterious lodes are common in a mineral belt, and while they're often imaginative, my notion is that now and then there's some fact behind the fiction.

Fur-traders in Alaska heard such tales long before the Klondyke strike." He stopped, for there were steps outside, and Thirlwell, leaning forward, saw a man come up the trail.