He hadn't had a chance from the beginning, for Aunt Caroline could answer objections far faster than he could make them.
They arrived at the terminus just four days after the expeditionary party had left for Friendly Bay.
If Aunt Caroline were surprised at finding more than one policeman in Vancouver, she did not admit it.

Neither did the general atmosphere of ignorance as to Benis daunt her in the least.

She adhered firmly to her campaign of question asking and found it fully justified when inquiry at the post-office revealed that all letters for Professor Benis H.
Spence were to be delivered to the care of the Union Steamship Company.
From the Union Steamship Company to the professor's place of refuge was an easy step.

But Dr.Rogers, to whom this last inquiry had been intrusted, returned to the hotel with a careful jauntiness of manner which ill accorded with a disturbed mind.
"Well, we've found him," he announced cheerfully.

"And now, if we are wise, I think we'll leave him alone.