CHAPTER 1Inspector Considine having departed for his three months’ leave, Sergeant Brinklow was in command of the post at Caribou Lake Settlement when word came through that Sir Angus Fairburn, the Lieutenant-Governor, was about to pay them a visit. Athabasca had just been created a province, and the appointment of Sir Angus to head it had been a popular one since he was a native son who had served as governor of the former territory. There were a few cynics who pointed out that he and his partner Mr. Luke Darrow controlled the whole of the province’s resources in coal and cement, and that the circumstances under which they had secured it were somewhat obscure, but such carping voices were lost in the general acclaim.
Mr. Darrow was to accompany Sir Angus and his daughter on this tour of
