"There's nobody I'm anxious to hear from in that country.

Now we'll go on again, Charley." The Cayuse, however, objected, and there was a struggle before Alton convinced it that resistance would be useless, while presently the trail grew steeper and the roar of water came out of the darkness before them.
"This," said Alton gravely, "is a great country, but it's mighty unfinished yet, and it kind of hurts me to see all that power wasted." "Wasted ?" said Seaforth, smiling.

"Don't the salmon swim in it, and the bear and deer come down to drink ?" "Oh, yes," said Alton.

"And sometimes the Siwash wash themselves in it too, but that's not the question.

This earth wasn't made for the bear and deer, and they've thousands of poor folks they can't find a use for back there in the old country.