Those who by virtue of wifehood and daughterhood are respectable, and those who are not respectable.
Vaudeville stars and artists, they call themselves for the sake of decency; and out of courtesy we countenance it.

Yes, yes, I know.

But remember, the women who come over the trail must be one or the other.
There is no middle course, and those who attempt it are bound to fail.
So you are a very, very foolish girl, and you had better turn back while there is yet a chance.

If you will view it in the light of a loan from a stranger, I will advance your passage back to the States, and start an Indian over the trail with you to-morrow for Dyea." Once or twice Frona had attempted to interrupt him, but he had waved her imperatively to silence with his hand.
"I thank you," she began; but he broke in,-- "Oh, not at all, not at all." "I thank you," she repeated; but it happens that--a--that you are mistaken.

I have just come over the trail from Dyea and expect to meet my outfit already in camp here at Happy Camp.