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Updated: May 12, 2025
Only John Gladney and the Hudson Bay company knew that for certain. The will, found in his pocket, left everything he owned to Mildred Margrave that is, his interest in the Aurora mines of Lake Superior, which pays a gallant dividend. Both she and John Gladney when they are in England go once a year to Herridon, and they are constantly sending flowers there.
There was no corrosion, he said to himself, like the memory of an ugly deed. But the experiences of the last few days had tended to throw him into the past, and for once he gave himself up to it. Presently there came to him the sound of a banjo not an unusual thing at Herridon. It had its mock negro minstrels, whom, hearing, Telford was anxious to offend.
This was singular, too, for his life had been of recent years much out of the beaten tracks of civilization. He got the outlines of Herridon in an hour or two, and by evening he could have drawn a pretty accurate chart of it, both as to detail and from the point of a birdseye view at the top of the moor. The moor had delighted him.
In Herridon to this day it all happened years ago they speak of the Hudson Bay company's man who made that terrible leap, and, broken all to pieces himself, had heart enough to put his horse out of misery.
She clapped her hands as she saw Baron rise, and the others, for politeness sake, could not urge her more. For the stranger. Only the morning of that day he had arrived at the pretty town of Herridon among the hills and moors, set apart for the idle and ailing of this world.
Of the world literally, for there might be seen at the pump-room visitors from every point of the compass Hindoo gentlemen brought by sons who ate their legal dinners near Temple Bar; invalided officers from Hongkong, Bombay, Aden, the Gold Coast and otherwhere; Australian squatters and their daughters; attaches of foreign embassies; a prince from the Straits Settlements; priests without number from the northern counties; Scotch manufacturers; ladies wearied from the London season; artists, actors and authors, expected to do at inopportune times embarrassing things, and very many from Columbia, happy land, who go to Herridon as to Westminster to see the ruins.
It is difficult for Herridon to take its visitors seriously, and quite as difficult for the visitors to take Herridon seriously. That is what the stranger thought as he tramped back and forth from point to point through the town. He had only been there twelve hours, yet he was familiar with the place. He had the instincts and the methods of the true traveler.
I got the impression besides, you are the only man I've seen in Herridon who looks likely to know it and the song which you prompted." "Do I look like a southerner still? You see I've been in an arctic country five years." "It is not quite that. I confess I cannot explain it." "I hope you did not think the thing too boorish to be pardoned. On the face of it it was rude to you and the lady also."
Then he walked to the town a couple of miles away, went to the railway station and took a train for Herridon. He arrived there some time before the coach did. He went straight to the View House, proceeded to his room and sat down to write some letters. Presently he got up, went down to the office and asked the porter if Mrs. John Gladney had arrived from London. The porter said she had.
She was traveling abroad with some people called Branscombes, and I'm going to send a letter through their agent. We shall see. "Lastly, for business. I've floated the Aurora company with a capital of $1,000,000, and that ought to carry the thing for all we want to do. So be joyful. But you shall have full particulars next mail. I'm just off to Herridon for the waters.
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