ir interest was removed for ever beyond the necessity of
their care. They mournfully placed the body in its seat, and Le Balafre
arose to announce the termination of the scene, to the tribe. The voice
of the old Indian seemed a sort of echo from that invisible world, to
which the meek spirit of the trapper had just departed.

"A valiant, a just, and a wise warrior has gone on the path, which will
lead him to the blessed grounds of his people!" he said. "When the voice
of the Wahcondah called him, he was ready to answer. Go, my children;
remember the just chief of the Pale-faces, and clear your own tracks
from briars."

The grave was made beneath the shade of some noble oaks. It has been
carefully watched to the present hour by the Pawnees of the Loop, and
is often shown to the traveller and the trader as a spot where a just
Whiteman sleeps. In due time the stone was placed at its head, with the
simple inscription, which the trapper had himself requested. The only
liberty, taken by Middleton, was to add--"May no wanton hand ever
disturb his remains!"

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