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_The True_ _Life Story of_ _Swiftwater Bill Gates_
_By His_ _Mother-in-Law,_ _Mrs. Iola Beebe._ ]
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 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.