Sometimes the window and door were open and the smell of parched grass came in; sometimes the stove was red-hot and the house shook in the icy blast.

Festing admitted that it was not altogether for Charnock's society he had visited the homestead.
Then he began to puzzle about a likeness to somebody he knew.

He had remarked this before, but the likeness was faint and eluded him.
Lighting his pipe, he tried to concentrate his thoughts, and by and by made an abrupt movement.

He had it! When he was in British Columbia, engaged on the construction of a section of the railroad that was being built among the mountains, he met a young Englishman at a mining settlement.

The lad had been ill and was not strong enough to undertake manual labor, which was the only occupation to be found in the neighborhood.