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She coloured a trifle, but took courage at Alton's soft laugh, for it was clear that he was as yet only concerned about the plight in which she had found him. Alton, she remembered, had not been brought up conventionally in England, and she knew his wholesome simplicity. "I'm very glad to see you, but if I'd known who was there I'd have fixed the place up before you got in," he said.
They had an opportunity of showing their affection before I came out to Canada, and didn't take it. I found the best friend I ever had in this country and as there seems no other way we'll try the canon." Okanagan sat down again, and hacked away with Alton's knife at a piece of redwood he was fashioning into a paddle.
"Of course you know what he was over there?" It was put artlessly, but Alton's eyes twinkled. "I'm afraid I don't, though I've no doubt Charley would have told me if I'd asked him," he said. "He is a tolerably useful man in this country, anyway, and that kind of contented me." The lady shook her head at him reproachfully. "And I thought you were slow in the bush," said she.
He walked straight forward, and stood with one hand on Alton's table looking down on him with wonder and anger in his face. His eyes were unusually bright, and there was a great contusion on his forehead. "Jack," said Alton simply. "Well, sit down there, and I'll try to talk to you. This is a devlish mess I've got into. Only heard about it ten minutes ago." Jack Townshead did not move at all.
"Did you find the peg?" said Alton, and Okanagan swept his glance across the faces before him. Seaforth's expressed bewilderment, Alton's was grim. "I found one," said Seaforth "Julius Caesar's." "Yes," said Alton dryly. "There should have been another, and a horse that breaks his tether can't pull out the peg. Still, I don't think he broke it." "But," said Seaforth, "the thing is broken."
If the bush country members can get the new appropriation through, the surveyor's going up to look at what we've done." "Effrontery is the thing that pays," said Forel. "But have you heard from Tom?" Alton's face grew a trifle graver. "He and more of the boys are sitting on the claim, and there's another crowd camped down with stakes ready right in front of him.
Part of Alton's business in the city was to raise the money that was needed to maintain them, and already he could foresee that if the time of prosperity was delayed it might go hardly with the Somasco Company.
Alton's face remained impassive, but his voice was not quite in accordance with it as he said, "The police have no word of him?" Forel smiled. "As there cannot well be a prosecution without a prisoner they are somewhat reticent. Still, Hallam caught the Sound steamer, and late that night one of the officers came round here, while I was eventually able to glean a few details.
A tremor ran through them, and then the pressure increased, until Seaforth was glad that it grew painful. He dare not glance at his comrade, he would not look at Tom, and sat very still in torment for a space, while he felt that Alton's arms had grown rigid by the cruel grip upon his hands.
"It would please me to stay right here and talk to you all day." Miss Deringham shook her head reproachfully. "One should imply such things and not put them into words. Still, I scarcely think you will much longer have an opportunity. We are going on to Vancouver very shortly." Alton's face grew clouded. "Why?" he said. The girl laughed softly. "We have inconvenienced Mrs.
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