"Dead—is he?"
"Yes; he died last spring."
"You don't say it!"
"There was some trouble with the Indians in that region, and he was shot in a skirmish with them."
"The last of them is gone, then," added Blair.
"Matt Rockwood had a brother—did he not?"
"He did have—but he is dead; and my mother died two years ago. And so uncle Matt is dead too?"
"Yes."
"The man that told my mother about him thought he must be making money out there, for he sold a great deal of wood to the steamers. Do you know anything about it?"