The girl was young still, and he stood for her as a romantic ideal of the new manhood that was to grow to greatness in the wildest province of the Dominion, while now and then she fancied she saw something in his comrade's face which roused her pity and stirred her to sympathy.

That, having made it unasked, the former should slight a promise of the kind appeared incomprehensible and she felt that if he did so her faith in the type he served as an example of would fall with him.

There was also pressing need of some one to look to for guidance in her time of necessity, because Townshead was not the man to grapple with any difficulty, and most of his neighbours knew little or nothing about the cities.
"Father," she said, "in case the purchaser turns us out where shall we go to-night?
The stage does not go in to the railroad until a week to-day, and do you think there will be anything left over to keep us for a little in Vancouver ?" Townshead glanced at her querulously.

"Somebody will take us in," said he.

"I should have fancied, my dear, that you would have seen I am sufficiently distressed and unwell to-day without having to anticipate further difficulties.