It was I who wrote to you and sent his effects to England." "You were there--in Canada ?" "Yes.

I had a dwelling within a dozen miles of where your father had built his hut by the side of the great lake.

He was the only other Englishman within a hundred miles.

So I was with him often." "It is wonderful--after all these years," Brooks exclaimed.

"You were there for sport, of course ?" "For sport!" his visitor repeated in a colourless tone.
"But my father--what led him there?
Why did he cut himself off from every one, send no word home, creep away into that lone country to die by himself?
It is horrible to think of." "Your father was not a communicative man.