But it seems that the daughter and son-in-law were just as much
amazed as Bertram, and when he was gone, and the poor old lady sank
into her chair and burst out crying, and as they came and asked who
or what this was, she sobbed out, "Your brother Hester! Oh! so like
him--my husband!" or something to that effect, as unawares. She
wanted to take it back again, but of course Hester would not let her,
and made her tell the whole.

It seems that her name was Faith Le Blanc; she was half English, half
French-Canadian, and lived in a village in a very unsettled part,
where Captain Trevor used to come to hunt, and where he made love to
her, and ended by marrying her--with the knowledge of her family and
his brother officers, but not of his family--just before he was
ordered to the Lake frontier. The war had stirred up the Indians to
acts of violence they had not committed for many years, and a tribe
of them came down on the village, plundering, burning, killing, and
torturing those whom they had known in friendly intercourse.

Faith Le Blanc had once given some milk to a papoose upon its
mother's back, and perhaps for this reason she was spared, but
everyone belonging to her was, she believed, destroyed, and she was
carried away by the tribe, who wanted to make her one of themselves;
and she knew that if she offended them, such horrors as she had seen
practised on others would come on her.

However, they had gone to another resort of theirs, where there was a
young hunter who often visited them, and was on friendly terms. When
he found that there was a white woman living as a captive among them,
he spared no effort to rescue her. Both he and she were often in
exceeding danger; but he contrived her escape at last, and brought