"To die in your teens in this country!--just as the curtain is up and the play begins--hard! Hullo, Anderson!" The great man extended a cordial hand, chaffed Philip a little, gave Lady Merton some hurried but very precise directions as to what she was to see--and whom--at Vancouver and Pretoria.

"You must see So-and-so and So-and-so--great friends of mine.

D----'ll tell you all about the lumbering.

Get somebody to show you the Chinese quarter.

And there's a splendid old fellow--a C.P.R.