FATHER MORICE

the midst of a heavy fog, thinking that he heard a noise as of a bear eating salmon, fired in that direction, and immediately real- ized that he had killed a man. So surprised had been the chief that he did not have the courage to go and see who his victim was, but immediately hurried back to tell Father Morice of the fact.

Being old and having passed a great part of his life before the advent of a missionary to teach him the moral code of a Christian, the old chief felt quite sure that, though he had been the actor in a pure accident, the Indians would come and kill him in ac- cordance with the Indian law or code of blood for blood. So he wanted to run into the woods and there build himself a log fort, as in the olden days, and defend himself. Father Morice at once dissuaded him from running away, pointing out that the times had changed since he was a young man us- ing his musket and axe and knife too freely, and that now, people being Christians—the disciples of Him who pardoned His execu- tioners on the Cross—they would pardon him for this unfortunate accident.

Meantime Father Morice sent for the body

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