A. M. Chisholm

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A. M. Chisholm Fur Pirates — 8. Ahtikamag (1915)

Fothergill and Dunleath sat apart, talking in low tones. Old Hayes was spinning one of his interminable yarns. But Tom Ballou sat by himself, his elbows on his knees, both hands cupped around the bowl of his pipe, and had nothing to say to any one.
I helped Louis clean up, and afterward I strolled away with him to the river bank, where he sat down and filled his pipe and opened the last button of his shirt, exposing his great, hairy chest to the cool of the night air drafting along the river.
"Sacré!" said Louis feelingly. "Dat cookin' she's no job for man.
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A. M. Chisholm Fur Pirates — 8. Ahtikamag (1915)

Fothergill, "I suppose there won't be any trouble in finding this cache, Tom. The directions seem explicit enough."
"A lot of things can happen in twenty years," Ballou replied, shaking his head. "Trees blow down and others grow up. Twenty years will green a burned country till you won't know it. And a fire will fix a timber country till you won't know that. Rocks move with slides. You can't tell."
"But you can find this Lake Ahtikamag, can't you?"
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A. M. Chisholm Fur Pirates — 8. Ahtikamag (1915)

Fothergill, who was snoring. "Listen to him!" Dunleath went on. "That's what it is to have money. An assured income beats an easy conscience as a soporific. Money may bring some cares, but it gets rid of a lot of others. There are times in a man's life when it is nearly indispensable as a means to an end. Good night, old boy!"
But I lay awake long after he had tapped out his pipe and gone to sleep.
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