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dollars had been taken from him. He had 

 been carried to the hospital in an insensible 

 condition. 



There was some eager hunting for the one 

 magistrate of the town, and for the one po- 

 liceman. What made the outrage look so 

 peculiar was the fact that the year before a 

 similar robbery had been committed at about 

 the same time. 



Reports coming from the hospital before we 

 left stated that the man had been restored to 

 consciousness and that he was resting quietly. 

 When the train finally did arrive we found 

 that the car containing the crates for both 

 hunting parties had been left at the summit, 

 many miles from Skagway. Why this was 

 done none could tell, as it was all down hill 

 from the divide to Skagway. The inspector 

 promised to attend to our freight when it did 

 arrive, and as we could do nothing else we 

 made our way to the steamer. 



We were under many obligations to Mrs. 

 Harriet Pullen, the proprietress of the Pullen 

 House, who did everything she could to bring 

 order out of chaos, even to going down to the 

 vessel and inviting the captain and the chief 

 engineer to take dinner with her, thus giving 

 us an opportunity to be introduced to them 



