Время-не-ждет _ It's Not Time

"Vremya-ne-zhdet" prozvali likhogo Elama Kharnisha na zolotykh priiskakh Alyaski. I on deystvitel'no privyk zhit' tak, budto zavtrashnego dnya ne sushchestvuyet, s zhadnost'yu vyryvat' u sud'by vse, chto tol'ko mozhno, naslazhdat'sya dazhe opasnost'yu, slovno uvlekatel'noy igroy. "Vse ili nichego", - takov byl yego deviz v mire Belogo bezmolviya, takim on i ostalsya v San-Frantsisko. Odnako udastsya li yenu, privychnomu k tovarishchestvu, chestnosti i grubovatoy iskrennosti zolotoiskateley, vyzhit' v financialovykh dzhunglyakh, gde tsaryat lozh', litsemeriye i kholodnyy raschet? Vyzhit' - i ne poteryat' sebya?..