“He did not know, neither did I know till I went up there to-day,” I said.
“Ah, I never liked those people. They’re only Dempsters, and not content with weaning you away from me, they’ve done the same now with my boy.”
“Did you ever hear such an unbelieving old creature,” cried Esau excitedly. “Mr and Mrs John D. going! Why you’ve coaxed ’em into it.”
“You don’t deceive me; you don’t deceive me,” said Mrs Dean, sobbing.
“Be quiet, mother!—But how is it they’re going?”
“For Mrs John’s health. I told you before they said they might go to Canada.”
“So you did.”
“Of course you did,” said Mrs Dean, scornfully.
“They are going to join Mrs John’s brother, who is manager out at a Hudson’s Bay Company’s station.”
“Hudson’s Bay,” said Esau, making a grimace; “that’s up at the North Pole. I don’t want to go there.”