" This made the
landlady of the little hotel laugh quite hard, for she did not like the
braggart "drummer" who had treated her with great condescension for a
number of years. Also Madame Glozel liked Jean Jacques because of his
canary. She thought there must be some sentimental reason for a man of
fifty or more carrying a bird about with him; and she did not rest until
she had drawn from Jean Jacques that he was taking the bird to his
daughter in the West. There, however, madame was stayed in her search for
information. Jean Jacques closed up, and did but smile when she adroitly
set traps for him, and at last asked him outright where his daughter was.
Why he waited in Montreal it would be hard to say, save that it was a
kind of middle place between the old life and the new, and also because
he must decide what was to be his plan of search. First the West--first
Winnipeg, but where after that? He had at last secured information of
where Zoe and Gerard Fynes had stayed while in Montreal; and now he
followed clues which would bring him in touch with folk who knew them. He
came to know one or two people who were with Zoe and Gerard in the last
days they spent in the metropolis, and he turned over and over in his
mind every word said about his girl, as a child turns a sweetmeat in its
mouth. This made him eager to be off; but on the very day he decided to
start at once for the West, something strange happened.
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