y 39 - night in DeSable with an old Scottish couple, he left for Charlottetown next morning carrying an empty pack andf 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 non-appearance of course became a topic 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 fBig Angus1 that f,he feared only God and nothing else that walked or crawl¬ ed on the face of the earth1, but he was apparently greatly upset by this ghostly encounter for in the words of his daughter Flora, Kthat 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- ^ i