Two days after M. Hebrard returned to the fort a wiser man. Oliver proved his rank, name, and right to fortune, to the satisfaction of everybody.
"Tell my relatives," he said, "that as long as they leave me alone, I shall be quiet. Go, and let us never meet again."
A week later, after the marriage of George and Diana, Tom Mitchell, Bright-eye, Oliver, and Captain Durand, started on the dangerous expedition undertaken by the outlaw, and of which, probably, we shall give some account at a future time.
[For further adventures of Bright-eye, see the "Prairie Flower," and the "Indian Scout," same publishers.]