It called for Philip Steele at Hymers.
It commanded him in the name of Inspector MacGregor of the Royal Mounted to reach Bleak House Station without delay.

What he was to do when he arrived at the scene of the wreck was left to his own judgment.

The wire from MacGregor aroused Philip from the stupor of horror into which he had fallen.

Gunn's girlish face was as white as a sheet.
"I've got a jigger," he said, "and you can take it.

It's forty miles to Bleak House and you can make it in three hours.