turned home by way of the Isthmus, when other and
new interests claimed my time and attention, and I would only hear now
and again that one and then another and yet others had left the trail
and passed over the dividing ridge into the land where camps neither
break nor move on.

The story of our trail has of necessity been told in monologue, as only
I of all the number am here to tell it.

The pictures upon memory's walls, a few relics, and a golden band upon
my wife's finger, made into a wedding-ring from gold that I myself had
dug, are the links which unite _these_ days to _those_ days.

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