No tidings or rumors have reached him of the fate of his wife, who was so cruelly taken from him four years before.

The faithful Teddy is still searching for her.

The last two winters he has spent at home, but each summer he has occupied in wandering hither and thither through the great wilderness, in his vain searching for the lost trail.

Cast down and dejected, he has never yet entirely abandoned hope of finding traces of her.

He had followed out the suggestion of the trapper, and visited the Indians that dwelt further north, where he was informed that nothing whatever was known of the missing woman.