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She left him without excuse for a reply , and he gravely reflected that the Marquis of Montrose was the only person to whom he could protest , but as she had copied from the quotation book the figures `` 1621-1640 '' and added them to the name for his illumination , it was clearly impossible to ask the author for an interpretation of his stanza . Archie was lulled to sleep by the encouraging thought that what she had done was to give him a commission to redeem himself by strange and moving adventures , and he dreamed that he had climbed to the remote fastnesses of the Rockies , and captured a mountain sheep alive and walked into his sister 's house with the animal under his arm and presented it to Miss Perry at the tea table . He changed trains at Boston and again at Portsmouth , where he checked his bag . At two o'clock he reached Bailey Harbor , where he verified his memorandum as to the return trip and found the telegram he expected from the New York brokerage office in which he was a silent partner , saying that his booking for Banff had been changed as requested . He never took the chance of being stuffed into an upper berth , or riding in a day coach , and he congratulated himself upon his forethought and the ease with which he was proceeding upon his sister 's errand . He stepped into the only taxi in sight and drove to the village druggist 's for the key to the Congdon house . `` Just go in and take your time to it , '' said the man .