"I'm Alton of Somasco, and nobody gave it me.

I won it from the lake and the forest that comes crawling in again--but I'm getting off the trail.

I didn't know your father was coming here, and hadn't any notion who you were." "That's curious, because he wrote to tell you," said the girl.
Alton flushed a little, for he was somewhat quick-tempered, and too proud to be otherwise than a veracious man.

"Well," he said slowly, "I have the honour of telling you I didn't get the letter.

There's a place called Somasco down in Vancouver." Miss Deringham decided that she had ventured sufficiently far.