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"The Gold Rush" 197
cuckoo. Outside in the street, Charlie and Jim pass each other, but Charlie's head is turned away and they do not recognize each other.
That night, in the dancehall, Cameron trips Charlie who suffers a mishap when, after contemptuously flipping his cane toward Cameron, a further attempt at nonchalance comes to grief when he leans against a hot stove. He is comforted by a note from Georgia. "Please forgive me for not coming. I'd like to see you and explain." Suddenly he is sighted by Big Jim, whose vigorous handshake sends him sprawling. Big Jim promises to go halves on his claim if Charlie helps him find it. Charlie rushes to the balcony, climbs up, and bids an excited farewell to Georgia, with vows, protestations of love, regrets, promises— until Big Jim yanks him away.
"After a long, tedious journey" the pair reach the cabin, this time, however, plentifully supplied with food and drink. In fact, Charlie brings in a large frozen animal carcass — "Man proposes but storm disposes." As our heroes sleep a storm rises, loosens the cabin from its foundations, and blows it to a precarious perch half over an abyss. When Charlie wakes he can't see out of the iced-over window. At every step the cabin tips. Jim comments on the rocking and Charlie assures him it is his stomach rocking from last night's feast. Then he plucks icicles from the ceiling for their breakfast water. More slipping and jolting makes Charlie question the stomach explanation. As they move to either side the cabin slants with them, see-sawing on the edge of the precipice. Feeling something is missing underneath, Charlie forces the door open — to find himself hanging in space. He barely manages to climb back in.
The cabin slips further over the edge. Neither man can stand any longer on the steeply slanting floor. In fact, the cabin would go down but for a frayed anchoring rope caught between two rocks. As the cabin teeters Jim warns