Moreover, he had lost his money, in consequence, Festing gathered, of his trusting dangerous companions.
Festing, finding that he had been well educated and articled to a civil engineer, got him a post on the railroad, where he helped the surveyors.
Dalton did well and showed himself grateful, but when Festing went to the prairie he lost touch with the lad.

The latter wrote to him once or twice, but he was too busy to keep up the correspondence.

Now he knew it was something in Dalton's face he found familiar in the portrait.
The girl had a steady level glance, and the lad looked at one like that.
Indeed, it was his air of frankness that had persuaded Festing to get him the post.
But this led him nowhere.

He did not know the girl's name, and if it was the same as the lad's, it would not prove that they were related.

He pushed back his chair and got up.