yes. "I shall
never see them again," she explained, wistfully.

The canoe had now caught its speed. Conjuror's House was dropping
astern. The rhythm of the song quickened as the singers told of
how the king's son had aimed at the black duck but killed the white.

"Ah fils du roi, tu es mechant,
En roulant ma boule,
Toutes les plumes s'en vont au vent,
Rouli roulant, ma boule roulant."

"Way wik! way wik!" commanded Me-en-gan, sharply, from the bow.

The men quickened their stroke and shot diagonally across the
current of an eddy.

"Ni-shi-shin," said Me-en-gan.

They fell back to the old stroke, rolling out their full-throated
measure.

"Toutes les plumes s'en vont au vent,
En roulant ma boule,
Trois dames s'en vont les ramassant,
Rouli roulant, ma boule roulant."

The canoe was now in the smooth rush of the first stretch of
swifter water. The men bent to their work with stiffened elbows.
Achille Picard flashed his white teeth back at the passengers.

"Ah, mademoiselle, eet is wan long way," he panted. "C'est une
longue traverse!"

The term was evidently descriptive, but the two smiled
significantly at each other.

"So you do take _la Longue Traverse_, after all!" marvelled
Virginia.

Ned Trent clasped her hand.

"We take it together," he replied.

Into the distance faded the Post. The canoe rounded a bend. It
was gone. Ahead of them lay their long journey.

THE END

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