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The smear

John Beames · 1920

A 1920 short story by John Beames set in a Dawson City saloon during the Klondike gold rush. A Mountie uses a clever ruse to unmask Finn Charley, who has just robbed and murdered a man on the Yukon Trail.

Public domain in the US. From Project Gutenberg.

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