I have continued to read revolver by Marcus Sedgwick. I left my last post by telling you about Sigs farther being dead. That he fell threw the ice and froze to death before he could start a fire. He now lies on the table in the middle of the cabin in Alaska. This is a man who came to the cabin on a "giant white horse." His name... Wolf. He talks a lot about his journey, tracking down Einar (Sig's father). he followed them for ten years.
Wolf tells Sig many stories, but my favorite was how Einar got away. They were going to leave Nome, a place with short summers and long cold winters. Sig's father was the man that weighed all the miners gold and tested it for purity. One day when Einar was locking up the station a large man bumped into him. "Test my gold" he said. Einar apologized telling the man he would have to come back the next morning but the man shoved him hard against the wall, "you listen here, I wont have my cabin robbed wile I wait here to have my gold tested tomorrow. Test it now." Einar still refused but luckily a few of the guys from work were headed home from the bar and saw him. Wolf let him go. The next day wolf returned, but his gold was of only 10% purity. Wolf stayed in the shop all day. not moving other than to stretch. He watched as miners came in person after person with some very pure gold and some not worth anything.
Einar and his family planned to take the very last ship out of Nome off to America. The last day when Sig was out playing watching the ships sail in and out, Maria, the children's real mother told Anna to go get Sig so they could eat the last dinner they would ever eat in Nome. An hour later after she ran into her father and they found Sig the all walked back to the cabin. Anna walked in first and saw her mother on the floor in "an awfully still position. She watched as the brown floor changed to a dark red." Maria had been murdered.
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