CHAPTER I.—Swiftwater First Hears of the Golden Find on Bonanza, in the Klondike. CHAPTER II.—Lure of Great Wealth and Love of Gussie Lamore Starts Swiftwater on His Career—True Story of Famous Egg Episode in Dawson. 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 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. CHAPTER XIII.—Swiftwater Gives Business Men Swell Banquet on Borrowed Money and Then Decamps for the Tanana Country—A Spring Rush to the New Gold Fields Brings Picturesque Crowd to Seattle. CHAPTER XIV.—Swiftwater Strikes It Rich on No. 6 Cleary Creek—Trip to the Interior Over the Ice—Swiftwater Promises to Make Reparation. CHAPTER XV.—We Come Out Together From the Tanana—Bera Has Swiftwater Arrested on Landing in Seattle for Wife Desertion. CHAPTER XVI.—How Swiftwater Secures His First Great Miscarriage of Justice—Remarkable Legal Transaction in a Seattle Hotel, Involving Court and Lawyers—Bill Persuades Bera to Secure a Divorce. CHAPTER XVII.—Swiftwater, Again in His Familiar Role as the Artful Dodger—I Take Another Trip Over the Ice to the Yukon—Gates Makes More Fair Promises and Then Runs Away to the States. CHAPTER XVIII.—Laws of Our Country Have Large Loopholes for Criminals of Wealth—Swiftwater Travels Scot Free and Makes Another Fortune in the New Mining Camp of Rawhide, Nevada. CHAPTER XIX.—Nurse Abducts Clifford, Swiftwater’s Eldest Son, and Takes Him to Canada—Miner Fails to Make Any Effort to Recapture Child—Waiting to Get What Is My Own Out of the Northland—The End. |