love him."

They catalogued Dick's virtues, and then Viviette unfolded her scheme.
One or other of the powerful personages whom, in her young confidence,
she proposed to attack, would surely know of some opening abroad.

"Even humble I sometimes hear of things," said Austin. "Only a day or
two ago old Lord Overton asked me if I knew of a man who could manage a
timber forest he's got in Vancouver--"

Viviette jumped up and clapped her hands.

"Why, that's the very thing for Dick!" she cried exultingly.

"God bless my soul!" said Austin. "So it is. I never thought of it."

"If you get it for him I'll thank you in the sweetest way possible." She
glanced at him swiftly, under her eyelids. "I promise you I will."

"Then I'll certainly get it," replied Austin.

Austin then went into details. Lord Overton wanted a man of
education--a gentleman--one who could ride and shoot and make others
work. He would have to superintend the planting and the cutting and the
transportation of timber, and act as agent for the various farms Lord
Overton possessed in the wide district. The salary would be L700 a year.
The late superintendent had suddenly died, and Lord Overton wanted a man
to go out at once and fill his place. If only he had thought of Dick!

"But you're thinking of him now. It can't be too late--men with such