two men who had guided and protected them during their earliest
experience of a voyageur's life, when, with hearts full to overflowing
with romantic anticipations, they first dashed joyously into the almost
untrodden wilderness.

During their career in the woods together, the young men and the two
hunters had become warmly attached to each other; and now that they were
about to part--it might be for years, perhaps for ever--a feeling of
sadness crept over them which they could not shake off and which the
promise given by Mr Conway to revisit Red River on the following spring
served but slightly to dispel.

On arriving at the spot where they intended to bid their friends a last
farewell, the two young men held out their hands in silence. Jacques
grasped them warmly.

"Mister Charles, Mister Harry," said he, in a deep, earnest voice, "the
Almighty has guided us in safety for many a day when we travelled the
woods together; for which praised be His holy name! May He guide and
bless you still, and bring us together in this world again, if in His
wisdom He see fit."

There was no answer save a deeply-murmured "Amen." In another moment
the travellers resumed their march. On reaching the summit of a slight
eminence, where the prairies terminated and the woods began, they paused
to wave a last adieu; then Jacques, putting himself at the head of the
little party, plunged into the forest, and led them away towards the
snowy regions of the Far North.

THE END.

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