“You have Indian blood in your veins?”
“Yes, sir, my grandmother was an Indian. I never saw her.”
“How long have you been in this district?”
“A year, sir.”
“How did you come here?”
“I got employment with a crew of boatmen at Miwasa Landing. I travelled with them as far as Great Buffalo Lake. There I bought a canoe from the Indians and came up the Swan River to the Great Falls and built me a shack.”
“You were alone then?”
“Yes, sir.”
“How did this woman come to join you?”
“I sent for her to keep my house for me.”