Nothing disturbed the quiet until, before noon of one day, we heard the gun fire and the shoutings which in that country customarily made announcement of the arrival of a party of travelers.

Being on the lookout for these, I soon discovered them to be my late friends of the Hudson Bay Post.
One old brown woman, unhappily astride a native pony, I took to be Threlka, my lady's servant, but she rode with her class, at the rear.

I looked again, until I found the baroness, clad in buckskins and blue cloth, brave as any in finery of the frontier.

Doctor McLaughlin saw fit to present us formally, or rather carelessly, it not seeming to him that two so different would meet often in the future; and of course there being no dream even in his shrewd mind that we had ever met in the past.
This supposition fitted our plans, even though it kept us apart.

I was but a common emigrant farmer, camping like my kind.