One was from Stirling and ran: "Start on Monday for Winnipeg.

I want a talk with you and may make a proposition.

Enclose order that will frank you over the C.P.R." Weston gazed at it with a thoughtful face.

Winnipeg was a very long way off, and it was tolerably clear that Stirling, perhaps influenced by something his daughter or Major Kinnaird had said, meant to offer him promotion.

Still, though he did not know exactly why, he shrank from accepting any favor from Miss Stirling's father, and, besides that, he had already pledged himself to Grenfell.