t Lake, following the
route which Manikawan had taken several months before in her journey
to the river tilt.

Manikawan's body was found as they had left it, and undisturbed. It
was lowered from its rude platform, and they laid it in its final
resting-place in a grave among the spruce trees not far from her
father's lodge. Over the grave a cairn of boulders was raised, and
surmounted by a tablet of wood upon which was carved simply the word
"MANIKAWAN."

Then they parted, Mookoomahn to turn northward in his long and lonely
journey to join his people, Bob and Shad to return to the river tilt,
and homeward.

It was on an afternoon late in June when the browned and
weather-beaten voyageurs turned their boat into Wolf Bight. What a
long, long time had elapsed, it seemed to Shad, since that foggy
morning in August when they had left the little cabin and said
farewell to the tearful group upon the shore; and how homelike and
restful the cabin looked now! What an age of experience had passed
since that night when Bob pulled him out of the Bay, and introduced
him, shivering and wet, to its hospitable shelter and warmth.

As they approached the shore a glad shout was heard, and a moment
later Emily--who had that very day reached home from St. Johns--and
Bessie, who was there to meet her, came running to the landing, with
Mrs. Gray and Richard and Douglas Campbell at their heels.

Emily laughed and cried with delight, quite smothering Bob with
kisses, and when she relinquished him to her mother she kissed each of
the other brown faces. Bob was quite impartial, and when his mother
released him Bessie was not forgotten in his greeting.

The most important, and therefore the first piece of news to be
imparted, was the partnership agreement between Shad and Bob. Douglas
at once prophesied success, and when, a fortnight later, Bob and
Richard took passage with Shad to St. Johns, Douglas accompanied them
as expert adviser in the selection of a trading vessel and the
necessary supplies for their posts.

* * * * *

The firm of Trowbridge and Gray began operations with the
establishment of stations in the interior, as originally designed.
Dick Blake was engaged to take charge of the post at the northerly end
of the Great Lake, where he quickly built up a large and lucrative
trade with both Nascaupee and Mountaineer Indians.

The river tilt was enlarged, and became a trading station and supply
base for the interior, over whic