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 said the "big man" had sent for Pierre and Victor; had said that they were to go to the Forks of the River and meet a gang, but when they got there the gang was gone and they had word to go somewhere else, and it was when Pierre came back and Victor had gone to the big lake, that the lad was told this by Pierre. The lad did not know where it was that Victor had gone, but he was to see him again when the drive was over and they were ready to go back to Canada before the feast of St. John.

Oh, yes; the "big man" was somebody who lived down where the water went over the big Falls, and owned all the trees, and sent the boss money to pay them. He didn't know his name, but he was a great big man—as big as the Seigneur at Rigaud-Vandreuil, the biggest man the lad had ever seen.

"A bigger man than the boss?"

Oh, yes; for he sent the boss money to pay them and owned the trees, while the boss wasn't as big a man as Louis Blanchet, the notary, whom he, the lad, had often seen and talked with, and once had thrown mud at when he was drunk.

No, he didn't know the big man's name; he had