Mr.Anderson has only to order one up from the camp hospital in the pass.

But for the present, Simpson and I are enough for the nursing." She heard voices in the next room; a faint question from Philip, Anderson replying.

What an influence this man of strong character had already obtained over her wilful, self-indulgent brother! She saw the signs of it in many directions; and she was passionately grateful for it.

Her thoughts went wandering back over the past three weeks--over the whole gradual unveiling of Anderson's personality.

She recalled her first impressions of him the day of the "sink-hole." An ordinary, strong, capable, ambitious young man, full of practical interests, with brusque manners, and a visible lack of some of the outer wrappings to which she was accustomed--it was so that she had first envisaged him.
Then at Winnipeg--through Mariette and others--she had seen him as other men saw him, his seniors and contemporaries, the men engaged with him in the making of this vast country.