they should be late, marched his brother on to the railway platform
to wait for the Camerons, who were to arrive from the North. Up and
down they paraded, Dunn turning over in his mind the conversation of the
night before, Rob breaking away every three minutes to consult the clock
and the booking clerk at the wicket.

"Will he come to us this afternoon, Jack, do you think?" enquired the
boy.

"Don't know! He turned down a football lunch! He has his sister and his
father with him."

"His sister could come with him!" argued the boy.

"What about his father?"

Rob had been close enough to events to know that the Captain constituted
something of a difficulty in the situation.

"Well, won't he have business to attend to?"

His brother laughed. "Good idea, Rob, let us hope so! At any rate we
will do our best to get Cameron and his sister to come to us. We want
them, don't we?"

"We do that!" said the boy fervently; "only I'm sure something will
happen! There," he exclaimed a moment later, in a tone of disappointment
and disgust, "I just knew it! There is Miss Brodie and some one else;
they will get after him, I know!"

"So it is," said Dunn, with a not altogether successful attempt at
surprise.

"Aw! you knew!" said Rob reproachfully.

"Well! I kind of thought she might turn up!" said his brother, with
an air of a convicted criminal. "You know she is quite a friend of
Cameron's. But what is Sir Archibald here for?"

"They will just get him, I know," said Rob gloomily, as he followed his
brother to meet Miss Brodie and her uncle.

"We're here!" cried that young lady, "to join in the demonstration to
the hero! And, my uncle being somewhat conscience-stricken over his
tardy and unwilling acceptance of our superior judgment in the recent
famous case, has come to make such reparation as he can."

"What a piece of impertinence! Don't listen to her, Sir!" cried
Sir Archibald, greeting Dunn warmly and with the respect due an
International captain. "The truth is I have a letter here for him to a
business friend in Montreal, which may be of service. Of course, I may
say to you that I am more than delighted that this letter of Potts has
quite cleared the young man, and that he goes to the new country with
reputation unstained. I am greatly delighted! greatly delighted! and I
wish the opportunity to say so."

"Indeed, we are all delighted," replied Dunn cordially, "though, of
course, I never could bring myself to bel