Kalman's claims and Kalman's wrongs were soon obliterated.

He had been found guilty of the unpardonable crime of failure.

The new firm went vigorously to work.

Cabins were erected at the mine, a wagon road cut to the Saskatchewan.

In three weeks the whole face of the ravine was changed.
It was in the end of April before French returned from his tie camp, with nothing for his three months' toil but battered teams and empty pockets, a worn and ill-favoured body, and with a heart sick with the sense of failure and of self-scorn.