Falchion's words: "You are going to be that--you!"
Then he explained to me that he had been studying for two years, and
expected to go up for deacon's orders soon after his return to England. I
cannot say that I was greatly surprised, for I had known a few, and had
heard of many, men who had exchanged the navy for the Church. It struck
me, however, that Galt Roscoe appeared to view the matter from a
stand-point not professional; the more so, that he expressed his
determination to go to the newest part of a new country, to do the
pioneer work of the Church. I asked him where he was going, and he said
to the Rocky Mountains of Canada. I told him that my destination was
Canada also. He warmly expressed the hope that we should see something of
each other there. This friendship of ours may seem to have been hastily
hatched, but it must be remembered that the sea is a great breeder of
friendship. Two men who have known each other for twenty years find that
twenty days at sea bring them nearer than ever they were before, or else
estrange them.
It was on this evening that, in a lull of the conversation, I casually
asked him when he had known Mrs.
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