After spending some time talking to Angel, George takes a liking to her and is willing to marry her. Upon his return to the claim, George rejects Angel outright, while Sam throws Billy into the river to sober up after a night of drinking.
Meanwhile, 17-year-old Billy has become infatuated with Angel back at the homestead, and attempts to impress her by acting as if he is more worldly than he is. After fighting off the claim jumpers, Sam notifies George that Jenny is married, and tells him about Angel. Upon arriving at the homestead, Sam immediately leaves to join George at a neighbor's claim, where claim jumpers are attempting to drive off the claim holders. Refusing to stay in the hotel and become Frankie's girl again, Angel stages a fake fight, storms out of the hotel, and travels with Sam to the homestead where he and the Pratts live. It is revealed that Frankie and Angel know each other from their past lives, and that Angel was formerly Frankie's girl. Since Sam has been gone, Frankie has become the owner of the hotel, having won it from the previous owner in a game of cards. Sam intends for her to return to Seattle, but she disembarks at Nome, and plans to stay at the hotel until the return boat arrives. On the boat trip, Angel learns of the misunderstanding. However, Angel misunderstands Sam's intentions, believing that Sam's offer is for her to be with Sam during a reunion picnic of Sam's old logging friends the following day, Angel becomes enamored of Sam, who treats her like a respectable lady. Frankie Cannon, a recently arrived conman, runs into Sam in town and attempts to swindle him out of some of his money before he leaves.Īfter arriving in Seattle and finding that George's girl has already married another man, Sam brings back prostitute "Angel" as a substitute, giving her the gifts originally intended for Jenny.
Sam is disgusted by marriage, which he considers tantamount to slavery, and cannot understand why George would willingly seek matrimony, but he reluctantly agrees. Sam plans to travel to Seattle, to purchase mining equipment George also asks Sam to bring back his fiancée, Jenny Lamont, a French girl whom George has never met but has corresponded with for three years. In 1901, after finding gold while panning in Nome, Alaska, on their claim, brothers George and Billy Pratt and partner Sam McCord have become rich.
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