He emerged again, and walked up the main street of Winnipeg, which on this bright afternoon was crowded with people and traffic.

He passed the door of a solicitor's office, where a small sum of money, the proceeds of a legacy, had been paid him the day before, and he finally made his way into the free library of Winnipeg, and took down a file of the _Winnipeg Chronicle_.
He turned some pages laboriously, yet not vaguely.

His eyes were dim and his hands palsied, but he knew what he was looking for.

He found it at last, and sat pondering it--the paragraph which, when he had hit upon it by chance in the same place twenty-four hours earlier, had changed the whole current of his thoughts.
"Donaldminster, Sask., May 6th .-- We are delighted to hear from this prosperous and go-ahead town that, with regard to the vacant seat the Liberals of the city have secured as a candidate Mr.George Anderson, who achieved such an important success last year for the C.P.R.by his settlement on their behalf of the dangerous strike which had arisen in the Rocky Mountains section of the line, and which threatened not only to affect all the construction camps in the district but to spread to the railway workers proper and to the whole Winnipeg section.

Mr.
Anderson seems to have a remarkable hold on the railway men, and he is besides a speaker of great force.