ed River, intending
to proceed from thence to Canada, on their way to England, while Allan
Keith took his to a fort, to the charge of which he had been appointed.

Loraine, by means of the information Captain Mackintosh had given him,
and such as he was able to obtain at the Red River, was able to prove
that his wife was the daughter of Ronald Grey, but was saved a vast
amount of legal expenses by her refusal to claim the property of which
he was already in possession.

Some time afterwards, Allan Keith and Effie came over to pay them a
visit. They brought some deeply interesting information. Search had
for a long time been fruitlessly made for the old hunter, until at
length, Norman and Hector Mackintosh, when on an exploring expedition,
had discovered on a tree-covered hill, overlooking a calm lake, a
solitary grave. Over it had been placed, in regular order, a pile of
huge logs, cut by an Indian axe. Searching further, they found in a hut
hard by, a hump-backed Indian, life apparently ebbing fast away.

He pointed above. "I am going," he whispered, "to that heaven of which
my friend and protector, he who lies yonder, has told me, through the
merits of One who died for sinful men. I have fulfilled his last wish,
which was to be buried, and but yesterday finished my task. It has been
a long one, for the trees were hard to cut down, and now I go with joy
to meet him, in the happy land from which there is no return. I am
thankful that you have come to know where he is laid."

In the hopes of resuscitating the poor lad, Norman and Hector
endeavoured to make him take some nourishment, but he was in too
exhausted a condition to swallow the food, and he breathed his last just
as the setting sun cast a bright glow across the calm waters on the old
trapper's grave.

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