Chapter 2—The Hudson’s Bay Fur Company
“Captain Craventy?”
“Mrs. Barnett?”
What do you think of your Lieutenant, Jaspar Hobson?”
“I think he is an officer who will go far.”
“What do you mean by the words, Will go far? Do you mean that he will go beyond the Twenty-fourth parallel?”
Captain Craventy could not help smiling at Mrs. Paulina Barnett’s question. They were talking together near the stove, whilst the guests were passing backwards and forwards between the eating and drinking tables.
“Madam,” replied the Captain, “all that a man can do, will be done by Jaspar Hobson. The Company has charged him to explore the north of their possessions, and to establish a factory as near as possible to the confines of the American continent, and he will establish it.”
“That is a great respons
