"That's the city where we shall stay over night," said Mr. Starr,
carrying suit-cases and grips toward the door.

A surprise awaited the Starr family as they descended from the train,
for Mr. and Mrs. Latimer were there to greet them.

"Well, when did you get here?" asked Mr. Starr, after greetings were
over.

"Day before yesterday, so we thought we would wait and start for the
camp together," returned Mr. Latimer.

As there were no porters or cabs in the isolated town, they had to
carry their own luggage. Mr. Latimer undertook to find a boy with a
wheelbarrow to take the trunks to the hotel. "Hotel! Is there such a
thing here, Mr. Latimer?" laughed Meredith.

"Wait until you see! You will be very proud to send home picture
post-cards of the place!" replied Mrs. Latimer.

"Where's Paul and Marjory?" suddenly asked Meredith, who had missed
Jinks, his chum, on the trip from Oakdale.

"Why, Marjory is reading to an old invalid this afternoon and Paul went
fishing with some boys," explained Mrs. Latimer.

While the Starrs are following their friends, the Latimers, from the
station to the hotel, let us see how they all came to be in this faraway
place in Canada.

When the Starrs left the island in Casco Bay in the early part of
September, Mr. Latimer, who lived in Portland, Maine, mentioned a trip
to the lumber regions of Canada. As Mr. Starr was interested in a large
lumber deal with Mr. Latimer, and had spent his summer in Maine on that
account, he decided to associate himself with Mr. Latimer in the
Canadian Pine Investment Co.

Consequently, the Starr family packed up their belongings and returned
to Oakwood from Maine several weeks sooner than they had expected, for
it was necessary that the children be completely fitted out with warm
clothing, and other necessities, if they were to spend the winter in a
lumber camp with the Latimers.

Of course, Mrs. Starr worried about keeping the children from school all
winter, but Mrs. Latimer said that the governess, who had been with her
children for several years, could so arrange her hours that all the
children could study under her direction. This arrangement satisfied
Mrs. Starr, and the only drawback to enjoying the novelty of life in a
lumber camp was entirely removed.

The Starrs left Oakwood the latter part of October and reached Grand
Forks the first of November. From there they traveled by various routes
until they reached their destination in the extrem