"May I ask where that home is ?" "He is the very good step-father of my wife, and one she loves as truly as if he were her own father," answered Helm, warmly; "a man among a thousand.

Mr.Kinzie is an Indian trader, and has been here for several years, if indeed he be not the first white settler, for old Pointe Au Sable was a West Indian mulatto.

His relations with these savages who dwell near the Great Lake, and especially those of the Pottawattomie and Wyandot tribes, are so friendly that he has felt safe to remain with his family unguarded in his own home.

They have always called him Shaw-nee-aw-kee, the Silver-man, and trust him as much as he trusts them.

He is, besides, a great friend of Sau-ga-nash, the half-breed Wyandot; and that friendship is a great protection.