TABLE OF CONTENTS.
CHAPTER I.—Swiftwater First Hears of the GoldenFind on Bonanza, in the Klondike.
CHAPTER II.—Lure of Great Wealth and Love ofGussie Lamore Starts Swiftwater on His Career—TrueStory of Famous Egg Episode in Dawson.
CHAPTER III.—Swiftwater Buys Gussie’s Love byGiving Her Virgin Gold to the Exact Amountof Her Weight—Fickle Girl Jilts Him in SanFrancisco and He Marries Her Sister, Grace—BurglarizesHis Own Residence After Quarrel With Bride.
CHAPTER IV.—Our Hero, Now a Big Operatorand Promoter, Meets His Future Mother-in-Lawin Seattle for the First Time.
CHAPTER V.—Love on First Sight of Bera BeebeIs Followed by an Elopement, Which Ends Haplesslyon the Hurricane Deck of the Steamer inSeattle Harbor.
CHAPTER VI.—Swiftwater Again Elopes WithBera, and They Are Married in the Yukon.
CHAPTER VII.—First Born of Swiftwater andBera Sees Light of Day on Quartz Creek, Where[8]First Gold Was Found in the Klondike—FinancialEntanglements Drive Swiftwater to AbandonImmensely Rich Property.
CHAPTER VIII.—Swiftwater Deserts His Childand Authoress in Dawson and Skips for theNome Country.
CHAPTER IX.—Hard Lines for a Deserted Womanin Dawson—Driven From Shelter by PhilWilson, Swiftwater’s Friend—Mounted Police AreKind to Deserving Unfortunate.
CHAPTER X.—Swiftwater Elopes With KittyBrandon, His Fifteen-Year-Old Niece, After DesertingBera in Washington, D. C.—Is Pursued byKitty’s Mother, but Escapes at Night from Seattle.
CHAPTER XI.—One Woman’s Ingratitude to Another,Who Had Befriended Her—Bera Is SentHome Penniless—The Return to Seattle.
CHAPTER XII.—Swiftwater Returns, a BrokenMan, to Seattle—Hides Under the Bed Clothes atHis Hotel in Terror When Discovered by HisMother-in-Law—My Gems Are Pledged to RaiseMoney to Get Him a New Start in Alaska.
CHAPTER XIII.—Swiftwater Gives Business MenSwell Banquet on Borrowed Money and Then Decampsfor the Tanana Country—A Spring Rush tothe New Gold Fields Brings Picturesque Crowd toSeattle.
CHAPTER XIV.—Swiftwater Strikes It Rich onNo. 6 Cleary Creek—Trip to the Interior Overthe Ice—Swiftwater Promises to Make Reparation.
CHAPTER XV.—We Come Out Together From theTanana—Bera Has Swiftwater Arrested on Landingin Seattle for Wife Desertion.
CHAPTER XVI.—How Swiftwater Secures HisFirst Great Miscarriage