Um, this bad woman--this damn bad woman. Um, she go with him, to-night, twelve o'clock, the water-hole. She meet um there. Mrs. Eppingwell _(Eagerly.)_ Yes, yes. And then.... SITKA CHARLEY And then she go with um, many sleeps, down the river. MRS. EPPINGWELL And you will get the dogs? SITKA CHARLEY Sure, I get um. _(Enter Dave Harney from left, striding angrily.)_ I get um now-- DAVE HARNEY Good-by. _(Starts in the direction of Dave Harney.)_ MRS. EPPINGWELL Wait a minute, Charley. SITKA CHARLEY _(Over his shoulder.)_ I come back. You wait. _(Approaches Dave Harney.)_ Hello, Dave. Cold to-day. DAVE HARNEY _(Whirling upon him savagely.)_ You betcher life it's cold--regular freeze-out, with me frozen. But I'm goin' to quit it, quit it cold. I'll harness up my dogs and hit the high places for a land of justice where a man can get what he's ordered a year before and paid for. SITKA CHARLEY Got any dogs to sell? DAVE HARNEY Got any sugar to sell? SITKA CHARLEY I buy um dogs. DAVE HARNEY I'm buyin' sugar. SITKA CHARLEY I got no sugar. You got dogs. I buy dogs eight dogs--how much? Dave Harney Five hundred dollars a dog. SITKA CHARLEY Um--eight dogs--four thousand dollar. DAVE HARNEY Dogs is wuth what you're willin' to pay for 'em. SITKA CHARLEY Um. DAVE HARNEY Look here, Charley, I used to be a miner, but I'm a business man now. Got any sugar? SITKA CHARLEY No sugar. DAVE HARNEY I'll throw a lot off them dogs for some sugar. No sugar, they cost you four thousand. _(Turns to go.)_ SITKA CHARLEY _(Making no movement to detain him.)_ Um. DAVE HARNEY _(Over his shoulder.)_ Four thousand, CHARLEY Um. SITKA CHARLEY They're wuth it if you want 'em real bad. SITKA CHARLEY All right, Dave. I buy. DAVE HARNEY Bring the dust around to my cabin at one o'clock. SITKA CHARLEY I buy now. DAVE HARNEY No, you don't. I'm goin' back to tell 'em what I think of 'em, the skunks! They've got sweetenin' in plenty for their own mush and coffee. You betcher life they have, and I'm goin' to get some of it or know the reason why. _(Storms out through door to lejt.)_ _(Sitka Charley returns to Mrs. Eppingwell.)_ SITKA CHARLEY That Dave Harney all the same one big robber. But I get um dogs all right. MRS. EPPINGWELL Tell me about this--er--this woman, Charley, this Freda--Freda Moloof her name is, isn't it? SITKA CHARLEY _(Showing plainly that his attention has been called off from the consideration of Loraine Lisznayi.)_ Oh, Freda! MRS. EPPINGWELL _(Smiling.)_ You call her Freda. SITKA CHARLEY Everybody call her Freda. Um good name. Me like it. MRS. EPPINGWELL Well, what kind of a woman is she? SITKA CHARLEY Um good woman. MRS. EPPINGWELL _(With an angry movement of arm and clenching of hand.)_ Oh! SITKA CHARLEY