"Where you goin'?"
"Been thinkin' for some time I ain't wealthy enough to live in this metropolis. There may be a place for a poor man, but Dawson isn't It."
"Well, I didn't think you were that much of a coward—turnin' tail like this just because a poor little Esquimaux—Besides, she may have got over it. Even the higher races do." And he went on poking his fun till suddenly the Boy said:
"You're in such high spirits, I suppose you must have heard Maudie's up from Minóok.
"You're jokin'!"
"It ain't my idea of a joke. She's comin' up here soon's she's landed her stuff."
"She's not comin' up here!"
"Why not? Anybody can come up on the Moosehide, and everybody's doin' it. I'm goin' to make way for some of 'em."
"Did she see you?"
"Well, she's seen Potts, anyhow."