That it would be sweetly pleasant to touch with one's hand. The
discovery was almost a shock. Keok and Nawadlook had beautiful hair, but
he had never thought of it in this way. And he had never thought of
Keok's pretty mouth as he was thinking of the girl's opposite him. He
shifted uneasily and was glad Mary Standish did not look at him in these
moments of mental unbalance. When he left the table, the girl scarcely
noticed his going. It was as if she had used him and then calmly
shuttled him out of the way. He tried to laugh as he hunted up Stampede
Smith. He found him, half an hour later, feeding a captive bear on the
lower deck. It was odd, he thought, that a captive bear should be going
north. Stampede explained. The animal was a pet and belonged to the
Thlinkit Indians. There were seven, getting off at Cordova. Alan
observed that the two girls watched him closely and whispered together.
They were very pretty, with large, dark eyes and pink in their cheeks.
One of the men did not look at him at all, but sat cross-legged on the
deck, with his face turned away. With Stampede he went to the
smoking-room, and until a late hour they discussed the big range up
under the En
