i68 WITH GUN AND GUIDE 



their whereabouts reaching the islanders, whom they 

 were sure would now be after them in hot pursuit. 



It was now night once more, and, taking their 

 canoes, they ran down the river by moonlight and slept 

 during the daytime, so that when they reached the 

 Maliset settlement at the mouth of the Tobique, they 

 swept through it in the dark to the accompaniment of 

 the barking of a host of dogs. Entering the St. Johns 

 Kiver, they paddled up-stream until the Grand Falls 

 were reached, where the river makes a sheer plunge of 

 one hundred and seventeen feet. They carried their 

 canoes around the falls by a good road and were soon 

 again on the way. They arrived on the seventh day 

 from their start at the lake, at a settlement now called 

 " Conners," where they were rejoiced to see Fere 

 Lamorieux stepping into a canoe to go down the river 

 while a crowd of lumbermen were bidding him good- 

 bye at the landing. Frank and Anita pushed their 

 canoes alongside of his, and Frank earnestly asked him 

 to marry them there and then. The faithful priest 

 consented and rejoiced them by telling them that he 

 had already published their bans of marriage the 

 required number of times. He, therefore, stepped 

 ashore and, entering one of the log houses, set up 

 an altar. There, surrounded by the astonished lumber- 

 men, he made them man and wife. 



The hardy woodsmen insisted upon celebrating the 

 occasion by a rustic dance and then a wedding 



