wonder, I'm afraid. But how could I keep him? I couldn't keep
him, could I," she said, "if his country needs him?"

The doctor glanced at her face with its appealing deep blue eyes.

"No, by Jove! You couldn't keep him, not you."

"Now, Mandy," said Cameron, "you must upstairs and to bed." He read
aright the signs upon her face. "You are tired and you will need all the
sleep you can get. Wait for me, Martin, I'll be down in a few moments."

When they reached their room Cameron turned and took his wife in his
arms.

"Mandy! as Martin says, you are wonderful. You are a brave woman. You
have nerve enough for both of us, and you will need to have nerve for
both, for how I am going to leave you I know not. But now you must to
bed. I have a little business to attend to."

"Business?" inquired his wife.

"Yes. Oh, I won't try to hide it from you, Mandy. It's 'The Big
Business.' We are--Dr. Martin and I--going up to the Barracks.
Superintendent Strong has come down for a consultation." He paused and
looked into his wife's face. "I must go, dear."

"Yes, yes, I know, Allan. You must go. But--do you know--it's foolish
to say it, but as those Indians passed us I fancied I saw the face of
Copperhead."

"Hardly, I fancy," said her husband with a laugh. "He'd know better than
run into this town in open day just now. All Indians will look to you
like old Copperhead for a while."

"It may be so. I fancy I'm a little nervous. But come back soon."

"You may be sure of that, sweetheart. Meantime sleep well."

The little town of Calgary stands on one of the most beautiful
town-sites in all the world. A great plain with ramparts of hills on
every side, encircled by the twin mountain rivers, the Bow and the
Elbow, overlooked by rolling hills and far away to the west by the
mighty peaks of the Rockies, it holds at once ample space and unusual
picturesque beauty. The little town itself was just emerging from its
early days as a railway construction-camp and was beginning to develop
ambitions toward a well-ordered business activity and social stability.
It was an all-night town, for the simple and sufficient reason that its
communications with the world lying to the east and to the west began
with the arrival of No. 2 at half-past twelve at night and No. 1 at
five o'clock next morning. Few of its citizens thought it worth while
to settle down for the night until after the departure of No. 2 on its
westward journey.

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