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fire that night. Groves related how he had 

 followed up the moose steadily, and had suc- 

 ceeded in killing the old cow and both her calves. 

 Some Ojibbeway Indians who were hunting 

 in the neighbourhood had joined him, and their 

 chief, Ti'te-de-bois, had induced him to return to 

 their village, undertaking to look after the transport 

 of the venison himself. This was after the chief 

 had heard that Pierre Lefranc was encamped on 

 the lake with only Paul as a companion, and was a 

 strategem to enable Tete-de-bois to revenge himself 

 on the Canadian, against whom he had long borne 

 a deadly hatred. During the short time that 

 Groves was at the Indian village, George Marshall 

 arrived with three or four sleighs ; for, being the son 

 and heir of a powerful director, he travelled with 

 even more pomp than ^Ir. Tanner. 



George explained the cause of his unexpected 

 arrival. 



" You know," he said, " how much I wished my 

 father to let me accompany you at first, and you 

 know how persistently he refused. Well, when 

 news arrived that the American House whose 

 failure had caused Mr. Gresham's death was about 

 to pay eighteen shillings in the pound, he could not 

 deny my request to be the bearer of the news that 

 you are, if not a millionaire, at all events a rich 



