We may fix up some way of getting over the difficulty." "Sorry!" said Alton with a suspicious quietness.

"I don't drink much, anyway, and then only with the boys who know me." "Hey!" said Hallam.

"You are talking like a condemned Englishman." "I can't help that," said Alton.

"I am a Canadian, but if you want another reason, it wouldn't suit me to drink with you, anyway.

You see, you didn't do the square thing with one or two friends of mine who worked on the Tyee." He turned on his heel, and Hallam, who was a man of some importance in the cities, gasped with astonishment and indignation.
"What is that fellow ?" he said.
The man laughed, and answered him in the bushman's slowest drawl.