THE EXPEDITION IS BROKEN UP.
Donald's friends were greatly disappointed. They fully expected that he would surrender himself to Major Dugas.
A few days subsequent to the interview it was announced that the expedition had been broken up. The Government had recalled all the men but five, who were left in charge of Detective Carpenter.
There was a tacit confession of failure.
The opposition press burst into a loud guffaw. "Was this the result of a year's effort to capture a criminal? Was this the return for all the expenditure which had been incurred?" The comic papers poked outrageous fun at the expedition. The illustrated journals mocked it in pen and ink sketches that smarted like aquafortis. The ribald versifiers flouted it in metrical lampoons whose burden was--"The man I left behind me."