[CHAPTER III.]—Swiftwater Buys Gussie’s Love by Giving Her Virgin Gold to the Exact Amount of Her Weight—Fickle Girl Jilts Him in San Francisco and He Marries Her Sister, Grace—Burglarizes His Own Residence After Quarrel With Bride.
[CHAPTER IV.]—Our Hero, Now a Big Operator and Promoter, Meets His Future Mother-in-Law in Seattle for the First Time.
[CHAPTER V.]—Love on First Sight of Bera Beebe Is Followed by an Elopement, Which Ends Haplessly on the Hurricane Deck of the Steamer in Seattle Harbor.
[CHAPTER VI.]—Swiftwater Again Elopes With Bera, and They Are Married in the Yukon.
[CHAPTER VII.]—First Born of Swiftwater and Bera Sees Light of Day on Quartz Creek, Where First Gold Was Found in the Klondike—Financial Entanglements Drive Swiftwater to Abandon Immensely Rich Property.
[CHAPTER VIII.]—Swiftwater Deserts His Child and Authoress in Dawson and Skips for the Nome Country.
[CHAPTER IX.]—Hard Lines for a Deserted Woman in Dawson—Driven From Shelter by Phil Wilson, Swiftwater’s Friend—Mounted Police Are Kind to Deserving Unfortunate.
[CHAPTER X.]—Swiftwater Elopes With Kitty Brandon, His Fifteen-Year-Old Niece, After Deserting Bera in Washington, D. C.—Is Pursued by Kitty’s Mother, but Escapes at Night from Seattle.
[CHAPTER XI.]—One Woman’s Ingratitude to Another, Who Had Befriended Her—Bera Is Sent Home Penniless—The Return to Seattle.
[CHAPTER XII.]—Swiftwater Returns, a Broken Man, to Seattle—Hides Under the Bed Clothes at His Hotel in Terror When Discovered by His Mother-in-Law—My Gems Are Pledged to Raise Money to Get Him a New Start in Alaska.