It's uncommon strange that he does so much for me.

I'm very grateful, but surely there must be some motive behind it." He glanced at Willet to see how he took his words, but the hunter merely smiled, and Robert knew that the smile was a mask through which he could not penetrate.
"Take the goods the gods provide thee," said the hunter.
"I will," said Robert, cheerfully, "since it seems I can't do anything else." And he did.

His response to New York continued to be as vigorous as it had been to Quebec, and while New York lacked some of the brilliancy, some of the ultimate finish that, to his mind, had distinguished Quebec, it was more solid, there was more of an atmosphere of resource, and it was all vastly interesting.

Charteris proved himself a right true friend, and he opened for him whatever doors he cared to enter that Mr.Hardy may have left unlocked.

He was also thrown much with Grosvenor, and the instinctive friendship between the two ripened fast.
On the fifth day of his stay in New York a letter came out of the wilderness from Wilton at Fort Refuge.