"You could send down your answer when, the next Hudson's Bay breeds come along." They were silent for a few minutes, and then Scott resumed: "I understand Miss Strange means to look for the vein next summer and you are going.

Why is that, since you don't believe her father's tale ?" "She's resolved to go and I can help.

When she's persuaded the ore can't be found she'll be content to give the notion up.

I don't want the thing to occupy her thoughts until it becomes a kind of mania, as it did with Strange." "I imagine she's an attractive girl." "She is attractive; but that has nothing to do with it," Thirlwell replied with a frown.

"I'm not in love with Miss Strange.