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"I'm not quite sure her views and yours would coincide," he said. "Anyway, she has been in New York before and in England, for that matter." Mrs. Frisingham adroitly shifted her point of attack, and it almost appeared, though Stirling could not tell how, that she had heard of the camp-packer.
"In that case, I'm afraid the notion can't be carried out," said Stirling. "Isn't it rather a pity?" suggested the lady. Stirling seemed to consider this. The two were old friends, in spite of the fact that Mrs. Frisingham, who now and then spent a few weeks in Montreal, had made several determined attempts to regulate the contractor's domestic affairs.
"As you like," said Stirling, who shortly afterward departed for the city. Mrs. Frisingham was a rich widow and a distant connection of Stirling's. She arrived that day, and on the following day contrived to spend a few minutes alone with Stirling when he came home from business. "I wanted to take Ida back with me, and I'm a little astonished that she won't hear of it," she said.
"Susan Frisingham is coming here from Toronto for a day or two before she goes back to New York," she said. "She suggests taking me back with her." "Ah!" said Stirling, with a barely perceptible trace of dryness. "You don't want to go just now?" Ida flashed another glance at him, and noticed the faint twinkle in his eyes.
Frisingham, who had rather more than a suspicion that Stirling already had in his mind somebody who had not been bred in the city. An unknown man who built new railroad bridges in the wilderness, or a bush rancher, it seemed most probable.
Anyway," he added enigmatically, "I don't know that the bush isn't as good a place to raise a man in as the hothouse Susan Frisingham talked about." Weston gazed at him in some astonishment, but the contractor made a little gesture with his hand. "Well," he said, "you meant to keep the thing to yourself?" "Until I had made the Grenfell Consolidated a success, when I should have come to you."
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