"Since I have heard more of your side of the question I am quite convinced that loyalty to England and complete commercial independence--I might say even commercial antagonism--may exist together in the colonies.

It seems paradoxical, but it is true." Mr Hesketh had naturally been hearing a good deal more of Mr Milburn's side of the question, staying as he was under Mr Milburn's hospitable roof.

It had taken the least persuasion in the world to induce him to make the Milburns a visit.

He found them delightful people.

He described them in his letters home as the most typically Canadian family he had met, quite simple and unconventional, but thoroughly warm-hearted, and touchingly devoted to far-away England.