His head hurt and he felt very dull and slack, but he slept and when he woke bright sunshine streamed into the standing car and he saw the train had stopped at Winnipeg.

Soon afterwards the conductor and one of the station officials put him into an automobile.
"If the reporters get after you, remember you're not to talk about the girl," he said to the conductor.
The other nodded, and signed the driver to start.

The car rolled off and stopped at the house of a doctor who dressed the cut on Lister's head and ordered him a week's rest.

Lister went to a hotel, and in the morning found a romantic narrative of Shillito's escape in the newspaper, but was relieved to note that nothing was said about the girl.

The report, however, stated that a passenger who tried to help the police had got badly hurt and Shillito had vanished in the woods.