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Show 136 Chapter 13: For Love Of Tip In late January Tip announced she was going to sing and dance Saturday nights at the Grand Forks Hotel for pay, as soon as Belinda could arrange for a piano player to come out from Dawson City. She and Belinda had already looked at gowns in Madame Rousseau's store in Dawson City, and Belinda said with some help from feathers, her hair v?as now long enough to wear pompadour. "Not on your pretty little life!" Caribou shouted. He slammed the frying pan down on the stove. "What does that mean?" Tip demanded, "That means no," I said. "He's not my dad," Tip said, bursting into tears. She fled to her top bunk and pulled the cretonne curtain. |