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There he caught the Winnipeg express, took possession of a stateroom and indited carefully worded telegrams to Trimble in Vancouver, that all out-going Pacific steamers should be watched, and to Menzler in Chicago, that the American city might be covered in case of Binhart's doubling southward on him.
"You mean he has accepted money? That," bitterly, "means nothing to him." "Nevertheless it gives me ground to stand on. And you, too. You have done secretarial work before?" "Yes. I have certain qualifications. At intervals I have tried to make myself independent. Several times I have secured office positions in Vancouver. But father has always made the holding of them impossible." "How?"
Indians living on the Columbian River, two hundred miles above Fort Vancouver, allied to the Nez Perces, and great supporters of the Americans. Name given to the half breeds by the Spaniards, but by Indians comprehending the whole Mexican race. The "spirit of the young beaver;" a name given to me when I was made a warrior. Two priests, literally two black gowns.
It is like the true story of the finding of coal on Vancouver Island a miner stubbed his toe and lo, a clod of earth split into a seam of shining worth!
"The islands to the west are those discovered by Cook, Vancouver, and Bougainville, are they not?" "They are marked Polynesia in the charts." "Do you know of any European settlements on these islands?"
He left Banff late at night, with a ticket for Vancouver, which he had bought on speculation, partly because the seaboard city is a clearing-house for travelers to all parts of the Pacific coast, but did not sleep much as the heavy train rumbled through the mountains. The jolting of the cars and the roar of wheels that echoed among the rocks disturbed him, and he was troubled by gloomy thoughts.
Late in the evening the steamboat, which I had sent back to Vancouver, returned, bringing to my assistance from Vancouver, Captain Henry D. Wallen's company of the Fourth Infantry and a company of volunteers hastily organized at Portland, but as the Cascades had already been retaken, this reinforcement was too late to participate in the affair.
Later he had written it down and Fong handed the slip of paper to Mark. On it, in the clear round hand of the Chinaman who goes to night school, was written "Harry Romaine, Vancouver." This brought Fong to the end of his discoveries. Having come upon a matter so much more momentous than he had expected, he was baffled and had brought his perplexities to a higher court.
"The time we spent at Somasco has passed very pleasantly, but we shall go down to Vancouver in a day or two." It seemed very trivial, for Alice Deringham was quite aware that this might be the last time she would look upon her companion, but she had bidden farewell to men of his kind before.
"The trouble is that the specimens might have been obtained from anywhere," said Stirling, dryly. "There's one concern anyway in whose case the objection does not apply. I got a telegram from my partner, the storekeeper, to the effect that the Hogarth Combine had sent up Van Staten from Vancouver to inspect the lode. I gather that one of the boys spotted him, though he meant to do it quietly.
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