Both contained short and flattering articles on the important Commission entrusted to Mr.George Anderson by the Prime Minister.

"A great compliment to so young a man," said the _Star_, "but one amply deserved by Mr.Anderson's record.

We look forward on his behalf to a brilliant career, honourable both to himself and to Canada." Several persons had already knocked at Anderson's door early that morning in order to congratulate him; but without finding him.

And this honoured and fortunate person--?
Men pushed each other forward in their eagerness not to lose a word, or a shade of expression on the pale face which confronted them.
Anderson, after a short pause, as though to collect himself, gave the outlines of his father's early history, of the farm in Manitoba, the fire and its consequences, the breach between Robert Anderson and his sons.

He described the struggle of the three boys on the farm, their migration to Montreal in search of education, and his own later sojourn in the Yukon, with the evidence which had convinced him of his father's death.
"Then, only a fortnight ago, he appeared at Laggan and made himself known to me, having followed me apparently from Winnipeg.