But there's another man, whom nobody seems to have thought of yet." "Who's that ?" "The Hudson's Bay agent at the factory where Strange was employed.
Strange was young then, and was probably frank and enthusiastic about his find.

I daresay he gave the agent all the particulars he could recollect when he saw the fellow doubted his tale.

His memory was, no doubt, pretty good, since he'd seen the lode a week or two before." "They have pulled down the factory and I expect the agent's dead," Thirlwell replied.

"If not, he must be an old man and I don't know where he is.

I'm not persuaded yet that Strange did find the ore; but if it hadn't snowed, I'd have followed Stormont's trail.