The Winnipeg Wolf 
of the richest and steadiest young men of the 
country, but of course, in feminine perversity 
her heart was set on that ne’er-do-well, Paul 
des Roches. A handsome fellow, a good 
dancer and a fair violinist, Fiddler Paul was in 
demand at all festivities, but he was a shiftless 
drunkard and it was even whispered that he had 
a wife already in Lower Canada. Renaud very 
properly dismissed him when he came to urge 
his suit, but dismissed him in vain. Ninette, 
obedient in all else, would not give up her 
lover. The very day after her father had 
ordered him away she promised to meet him 
in the woods just across the river. It was easy 
to arrange this, for she was a good Catholic, 
and across the ice to the church was shorter 
than going around by the bridge. As she went 
through the snowy wood to the tryst she no- 
ticed that a large gray Dog was following. It 
seemed quite friendly, and the child (for she 
was still that) had no fear, but when she came 
to the place where Paul was waiting, the gray 
Dog went forward rumbling in its chest. Paul 
gave one look, knew it for a huge Wolf, then 
fled like the coward he was. He afterward 
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