She tells me he led a very industrious and sober life at home." "It's rather curious you met the girl," Scott observed.
"I don't think so.

When we found her address among the truck Strange had left with the foreman, it was the proper thing for me to tell her he was drowned.

This led to another letter or two, and when I said I was going to Montreal she asked me to meet her." "Is she like Strange ?" "Not at all," Thirlwell declared.

"In fact, although her letters ought to have prepared me, I got something of a surprise.

She was not the kind of girl I had expected to meet.