“We are pleased to see you, Corporal Bracknell. No doubt, if you have been long on the trail, you will be ready for dinner.”
CHAPTER II
A STRANGE DISAPPEARANCE
FEELING like a man in a dream, the corporal took his seat at the table, and when the soup was served by an Indian youth, he was too much amazed to attempt conversation. Miss Gargrave looked at him and casually asked, “You have never been to North Star before, Mr. Bracknell?”
“No,” he answered, shaking his head. “I am new to this district. I was transferred from Edmonton four months ago.”
“Then you did not know of our existence?”
The corporal smiled. “I had heard something of it; but the truth is I had forgotten all about it.”
The girl nodded. “I can understand that. We are so far out of the track of things that it is easy for the world to forget us.”