God knows what folly will come then.

But sometime, one way or another, the joint occupancy of England and the United States in the Oregon country must end.

It has been a waiting game thus far, as you know; but never think that England has been idle.

This meeting in Montreal will prove that to you." In spite of myself, I began to feel the stimulus of a thought like this.
It was my salvation as a man.

I began to set aside myself and my own troubles.
"You are therefore," he concluded, "to go to Montreal, and find your own way into that meeting of the directors of the Hudson Bay Company.