' But when the plane was about to take off, General Shatter said: 'If the girl'sleaving, why doesn't she fly ''I refuse to adjust to such unfairness. At first Jeb believed that somehow Poley and hiscronies had discovered a new oil field, but his contacts at Prudhoe Bay said: 'Impossible. Neither of us must take it too seriously,but you must take with great seriousness the fact that I want to keep you as a friend.
st warn the energetic fellow that he was making one big mistake: 'Major,sir, down there, maybe okay strip off the topsoil, make solid base. They had been imported, the locals claimed,by an enterprising German businessman who knew what a gold rush needed, and theywere some of the best workmen, to use an odd term, in the Klondike. As the silvery days of the German winter passed, with the visitors thinking oftenof the bleak darkness back home, Ross smiled and said: 'On Friday afternoon,Tom, you'll meet the newest Lydia Dart, except that she's added Ross to her name.
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