He actually traced us to Montreal, but there lost the clue, and came back disappointed.

For some years he continued to live much as he had done ever since his return from England, frequently staying two or three weeks on the island, and never forgetting to make some effort to trace us.

The perpetual terror I suffered during those years never subsided.

I feared to go outside of my own garden lest he should meet and recognize me.

At last Mr.Strafford sent me word that he had gone to the Hudson's Bay Territory.
"After that I began to feel that I was free, and from the time you were nine until you were sixteen I had little immediate anxiety; then, as I saw you growing up, I knew that the time when you must know your own birth and my history drew very near, and the idea weighed on me constantly.