Then my knee began to pain
me. I feared inflammation; so in the dead of night I walked back to the
village, roused a trader of the Company, got some liniment and other
trifles, and arrived again at St. Saviour's before dawn. My few clothes
and necessaries came in the course of the morning, and by noon we were
fairly started on the path to exile.
"I remember that we came to a lofty point on the St. Lawrence just before
we plunged into the woods, to see the great stream no more. I stood and
looked back up the river towards the point where Lachine lay. All that
went to make the life of a Company's man possible was there; and there,
too, were those with whom I had tented and travelled for three long
months,--eaten with them, cared for them, used for them all the woodcraft
that I knew. I could not think that it would be a young man's lifetime
before I set eyes on that scene again. Never from that day to this have
I seen the broad, sweet river where I spent the three happiest years of
my life.
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