As a result, a telegram was received a week later at the Bank of Nova Scotia in St.Johns addressed to Cabot Grant, and desiring him to return at once to New York.

As the bank people wired back that they had no knowledge of any such person, Mr.
Hepburn in reply requested them to keep a sharp lookout for a young man of that name, who would shortly present a letter of credit to them, and provide him with a ticket to New York on account of it, but nothing more.

Mr.Hepburn also explained that, as Cabot Grant's guardian, he had the right to thus limit his ward's expenditures.
Thus our lad fell into disgrace with his employer, who knew, as well as any man living, the exact status of the Bell Island iron mine, and had only requested Cabot to report on it in order to test his fitness for other work.
While the correspondence with the bank was being carried on, Messrs.
Walling and Gregg watched for the arrival of the young engineer, whom they expected by every train.

They also anxiously awaited the news that the Hepburn syndicate had withdrawn its offer for the Bell Island property, in which event it would fall, at a greatly reduced price, to the company represented by Mr.Gregg.
Totally unconscious of all this, Cabot Grant was at that very time in a remote corner of the west coast, happily engaged in aiding certain of its inhabitants to discomfit the combined naval forces of two of the most powerful governments of the world.

Moreover, he had become so interested in this exciting occupation, as well as in certain discoveries that he was making, as to have very nearly lost sight of his intention to visit the capital of the island.
When he reembarked on the "Sea Bee" at St.George's Bay, he fully intended to catch the train of two days later at the station to which White had promised to convey him.