Twice during the five years he had been sent by Jack French to the city for a three months' term in a Business College, where he learned to know, not only the books of his College curriculum, but, through Jack's introductions, the men who were doing big things for the country.

He had returned to his place and to his work in the mine with vision enlarged, ideal exalted, and with the purpose strengthened to make the best out of life.

In every sense the years had made a man of him.

He was as tall as Jack, lithe and strong; in mind keen and quick, in action resolute.

To those he met in the world of labour and of business he seemed hard.
To his old friends on the ranch or at the Mission, up through all the hardness there welled those springs that come from a heart kind, loyal, and true.