CHAPTER III.
"Mr.Delaine, sir ?" The gentleman so addressed turned to see the substantial form of Simpson at his elbow.

They were both standing in the spacious hall of the C.P.R.
Hotel adjoining the station at Winnipeg.
"Her ladyship, sir, asked me to tell you she would be down directly.

And would you please wait for her, and take her to see the place where the emigrants come.

She doesn't think Mr.Gaddesden will be down till luncheon-time." Arthur Delaine thanked the speaker for her information, and then sat down in a comfortable corner, _Times_ in hand, to wait for Lady Merton.
She and her brother had arrived, he understood, in the early hours at Winnipeg, after the agitations and perils of the sink-hole.

Philip had gone at once to bed and to slumber.