"Orlando booked for the sleeper going East in thirty minutes; but the sleeper was for one only, and that one was his mother, you old hippopotamus....

But I wonder where she is--where the divine Louise is?
She hasn't levanted with her Orlando.
...

Now, I wonder!" he added.
Then, with a sudden impulse, he dug heels into his horse's sides, and galloped back towards Askatoon.

He wanted to see what would happen before the express went East..