Burns himself was upon his return westward, and did not seem greatly troubled lest he fail to get through.

He claimed to live at Chicagou Portage, wherever that may be.

I only know it is the extreme frontier." My mother did not answer; and now I spoke, my cheeks aflame with eagerness.
"Do you truly mean, sir, that I am to go in search of the little girl ?" I asked, barely trusting my own ears.
"Yes, John," my father replied gravely, motioning me to draw closer to his chair.

"This is a duty which has fallen to you as well as to your mother and me.

We can, indeed, but poorly spare you from the work at this season; yet Seth will be able to look after the more urgent needs of the farm while you are absent, while he would prove quite useless on such a mission as this.