as for the converts, until it could be ascertained
that the Blackfeet had finally left the district."

It need not be said that Loraine and Keith had warmly urged him to take
this step.

Captain Mackintosh, giving him a hearty welcome, assured him of the use
he would be to the inmates of the fort.

"In truth, my dear friend," he observed, "I believe you can do more real
good among my half heathen people, than you could to any of the few
Indians who would visit you during the winter."

Mr Harvey, besides his wife, had two daughters, nearly grown up, and a
son, who, there could be no doubt, would prove a great addition to the
society at the fort, the inmates of which had little chance of enjoying
much communication with the outer world for many months to come.

Soon after his arrival, Mr Harvey inquired for Isaac Sass. "I half
expected to have found him here," he observed to Captain Mackintosh,
"though he left without saying in what direction he was going. I am
thankful to believe that his visit to me was of spiritual benefit to
him; for, opening his heart, he confessed that he had been a careless
liver, having endeavoured, though in vain, to put God out of his
thoughts. I was the instrument of bringing his mind into a better
state, and I trust that in a contrite spirit he sought forgiveness from
God through the gracious means He has offered to sinners. Before
leaving me, he put into my hands a packet to be delivered to you; and
from what he said, I suspect that he is deeply interested in the young
lady whom I believed to be your daughter, until he assured me that such
was not the case. He had recognised her by her likeness to one whom he
truly loved, but who had been lost to him for ever, though, I conclude,
you will learn his history from the contents of the packet which I now
give you."

Captain Mackintosh, on opening the packet, found it contained a long
manuscript written in a large but somewhat shaky hand. It would occupy
too much space were it to be copied. His life, like that of many
others, had been an adventurous one. His true name was Hugh Lindsay,
and his family was an old and good one. Having left home at an early
age, he entered the service of the Hudson's Bay Company, and had every
reason to expect to become one of its leading members, when his family
so strongly expressed their annoyance at hearing of his marriage with a
beautiful half-Cree girl, that he ceased to hold any communication with