But long ago.

Madame, he went to convert the savages--the Indians." Mrs.Costello started.

Father Paul was a Jesuit priest--an old venerable man--old enough, as it flashed into her mind, to have been one of the Moose Island missionaries.

Yet such an idea was improbable--there had no doubt been many other Jesuit missions besides the one where Christian had been trained.
"Do you know where it was that he went ?" she asked, after a moment's pause.
"It was in Canada," Madame Everaert repeated, "and he lived among the savages; if madame is from Canada, she would know where the savages live." "There are very few savages now," Mrs.Costello answered with a smile.
"I know where there used to be some--possibly that was the very place." "No doubt.

I shall tell the good father that madame knows it." "Stay.