Then he was driven to the station, where Edgar joined him; and the greater part of their journey proved uneventful.
Twelve days after leaving Liverpool they were, however, awakened early one morning by feeling the express-train suddenly slacken speed.

The big cars shook with a violent jarring, and George hurriedly swung himself down from his upper berth.

He had some difficulty in getting into his jacket and putting on his boots, but he pushed through the startled passengers and sprang down upon the track before the train quite stopped.

He knew that accidents were not uncommon in the wilds of northern Ontario.
Ragged firs rose, dripping, against the rosy glow in the eastern sky, with the narrow gap, hewed out for the line, running through their midst.

Some had been stripped of their smaller branches by fire, and leaned, dead and blackened, athwart each other.