Whatever was possible to do to provide for Mr.Leigh's comfort during his short solitude they had done.

The last farewells were said; Mr.Strafford, who had insisted on going with them to New York, had arrived at the Cottage.

Mrs.Bellairs and Bella had spent their last day with their friends and gone away in tears.

All their life at Cacouna, with its happiness and its sorrow, was over, and early next morning they were to cross the river for the last time, and begin their journey to England..