There were one or two other trifles I couldn't quite figure out the meaning of." "Winston was drowned ?" said the officer.
"Well," said Stimson, "the trooper who rode after him heard him break through the ice, but nobody ever found him, though a farmer came upon his horse." The officer nodded.

"I fancy you are right, and the point is this.
There were two men, who apparently bore some resemblance to each other, engaged in an unlawful venture, and one of them commits a crime nobody believed him capable of, but which would have been less out of keeping with the other's character.

Then the second man comes into an inheritance, and leads a life which seems to have astonished everybody who knows him.

Now, have you ever seen these two men side by side ?" "No, sir," said Stimson.

"Courthorne kept out of our sight when he could, in Alberta, and I don't think I or any of the boys, except Shannon, ever saw him for more than a minute or two.