When I last saw Baree he was at Lac Seul House, where I was the guest of Mr.William Patterson, the factor; and the last word I heard from him was through my good friend Frank Aldous, factor at White Dog Post, who wrote me only a few weeks ago that he had recently seen Nepeese and Baree and the husband of Nepeese, and that the happiness he found in their far wilderness home made him regret that he was a bachelor.

I feel sorry for Aldous.

He is a splendid young Englishman, unattached, and some day I am going to try and marry him off.

I have in mind someone at the present moment--a fox-trapper's daughter up near the Barren, very pretty, and educated at a missioner's school; and as Aldous is going with me on my next trip I may have something to say about them in the book that is to follow "Baree, Son of Kazan." James Oliver Curwood Owosso, Michigan.