Soon after the Maud arrived in Vancouver, Helen and a doctor started for the North on board a gasoline launch, and although the boat was swept by angry seas, reached the steamboat landing. The doctor declared Bob had broken again a bone that was not properly knit and the muscular effort he used at the dam accounted for the injury the sharp end had done. Moreover, when he reached the dam he was ill and exhausted and he must pay for his rashness. He imagined Bob would not for a long time resume his work, but by and by Helen might perhaps take him to California.
MaudSometimes when all was quiet and Helen watched by her husband’s bed she speculated about his starting for the settlement. Harry ought not to have given Bob the foreman’s letter and he ought not to have let him go. He declared he
