There was, however, nothing else to be remarked about him, and she thought him a common type of young business man.
"I am not engaged just now," she replied.
"Thank you," said Stormont.

"Perhaps I'd better state that I'm pretty well known in Winnipeg, where I do business in real estate and sometimes undertake the development of mineral claims.

I've recently put over two or three big transactions in that line." "But Manitoba is a farming country." "Certainly; the prairie belt.

The eastern strip, running along the edge of the Territories from Lake of the Woods, is different.

There the rocks break out among the pine forests and in the last few years prospectors have found valuable minerals.