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night in DeSable with an old Seotti sh _coupale, he left for Charlottetown next morning carrying an empty pack and, the old story said, the sum of 10 Pounds Sterl-

ing, a small fortune at that time.

Years passed but the friendly pedlar never returned. His nonrappearance of course became a tapic of great

speculation among the people.

The subject was revived for a time when Angus Campbell, working late to square timber in Todd's Hollow look-

ed up to see Downey standing at the far end of the

tree.

Campbell had gone forward eagerly to greet his old friend only to have the apparition disappear before his eyes. It was always said of 'Bia Anaus' that "he feared only God and nothing else that salked or crawl- ed on the face of the earth', but he was apparently 'greatly upset by this ghostly encounter for in the words of his daughter Flora, "that night he turn his face to the wall, and of food, he take none". The mystery was cleared in 1837 when Christopher Smith

of Crapaud, English settler and Methodist lay preach-