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looks and the fact that his own mother took
more interest in him than Jim thought was
justified.

“Why he was in the back of the cart a few
minutes ago,” Betty spoke. “I saw him before
Bill got the flag.”

Then slowly a pile of blankets began to stir
and a white face peered out from among them.

“Have they gone?” whispered Arthur in a
shaking voice.

Scornful laughter greeted him, for no one
loves a coward. The professor seized a leg and
pulled him out of his burrow, rather roughly,
to the ground.

“Walk for a mile or two,” he said. “It
might perhaps stiffen your backbone a little!”

By this they were on the move again, slowly

climbing the last rise, when the Red River

would be at their feet. From this point they
would follow along its banks to Georgetown.

When night came they were not far from
the boundary of Rupertsland, as the great ter-
ritory under the jurisdiction of the Hudson’s
Bay Company was then called. It included
Manitoba, Saskatchewan and Alberta of the
present day. Here they had the joy of seeing

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