She, of all persons, to be so communicative about the family affairs to a stranger! Was it that two days in a private car in Canada went as far as a month's acquaintance elsewhere?
Another passenger had been introduced to Lady Merton by Anderson, an hour before the departure of the car, and had made such a pleasant impression on her that he also had been asked to join the party, and had very gladly consented.

This was the American, Mr.Val Morton, now the official receiver, so Elizabeth understood, of a great railway system in the middle west of the United States.

The railway had been handed over to him in a bankrupt condition.

His energy and probity were engaged in pulling it through.

More connections between it and the Albertan railways were required; and he was in Canada looking round and negotiating.