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The excerpt represents the core issue or deciding factor on which you must meditate, and is drawn from Tales of the Klondyke by Jack London: "Everything my way. Took the wind from his sails on the first
leg. I was for getting her aboard and sailing down Wrangel way
till it blew over, leaving him to whistle; but I wasn't to get her
that easy. Seems she was living with an uncle of hers--guardian,
the way such things go--and seems he was nigh to shuffling off
with consumption or some sort of lung trouble. He was good and
bad by turns, and she wouldn't leave him till it was over with.
Went up to the tepee just before I left, to speculate on how long
it'd be; but the old beggar had promised her to Chief George, and
when he clapped eyes on me his anger brought on a hemorrhage.
"'Come and take me, Tommy,' she says when we bid good-by on the
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