Delilah of the Snows

is the story about the blindness of a young man, Walter Ingleby, to the sterling worth of a girl in his own "class," his mad infatuation for another girl socially beyond his reach, and his final awakening to his folly when the other girl betrays him as wantonly as Delilah betrayed Samson, into the hands of the authorities who demand his life. The scene of the story is the Klondike, and the sense conveyed of cold and privation and suffering; of primitive passions and the application of the law that might makes right all this is done forcefully and with good art.