Chapter I: Front Matter

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 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.

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.