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"You shall see them, Mr Micklan, for they are safe in my box in the waggon; and if you recognise them, as you expect to do, Lily shall call you `Grandfather; but as to giving her up No, no! you will not expect that of us. For sixteen years she has been our child, and we have loved her, and love her still, as if she were our own.
"Glad to get you out of the clutches of the Indians, my son Reuben," he said. "I am not Reuben," I answered; "but I heartily wish that he had escaped. I am Roger Penrose." "Why, Sandy McColl, I told you to try and set Reuben at liberty; though I am glad to see you, Roger," said the speaker, whom I now recognised as the old trapper, Samson Micklan.
The settlement flourished and rapidly increased, for we were soon joined by other parties from the eastward; and even my uncles acknowledged that they had no desire to make another move greatly to Aunt Hannah's satisfaction. Lily, in course of time, became my wife; and Mr Micklan, loved and respected by the whole of the community, lived to hear the prattle of his great-grandchildren.
As he spoke I recognised Manilick, the young chief, Ashatea's lover. "I happily met the friend of my tribe, Samson Micklan, who, with his companions, are anxious about you," he continued. "Confident of your courage and hardihood, they would not believe that you were lost; and they urged me to make a circuit to the south, in the possibility of coming on your trail.
I will not run away with you; but just let me love you, and watch over you, and take care of you, and I shall be content, and end my days more happily than I had ever hoped to do." Lily came forward and put her hand into that of the old man, who, stooping down, kissed her fair brow, and pressed her to his heart. After this a change seemed to come over Samson Micklan.
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