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an English buccaneer. She was a woman of command- ing appearance and of great courage. Their daughter, born in the \Vest Indies, in 1705, was fifteen years old when her father sailed for South America. He never returned. Some say he was killed in an attack upon a Portuguese vessel at the mouth of the Orinoco, and others that he was captured by an English man-of—war, taken to London, and hanged for piracy. At any rate, he disappeared, and the treasure which he had buried along the Gulf of Mexico remained the secret of Madame Grandville.

“Then Marie and her mother went north in search of relatives. First they came to Port Royal and later to Port la Joye. They wandered from place to place. Unlike the French, they disliked a sedentary life and were more at home in the wigwams of the Indians. Wherever they went they were welcome and popular. Marie’s gaiety and light-heartedness, her fairy-like dancing, her Spanish and English songs delighted them all. She was a great favourite, especially with the old chief and his son, Kaktoogwasee.

”Near the spring of La Grande Source the mother and daughter loved to dwell. In the autumn and summer they spent days and weeks there, but their unsettled life, their dwelling near this haunted spring, their irregular church attendance, and their participa- tion in the tribal rites of the Micmacs disturbed the holy father who had charge of their souls. Strange tales of their activities sprang up and grew in propor- tion as they were told. One traveller saw Madame Grandville slowly arising from the depths of the spring. When she set foot on the bank a hand came from the water and passed her a bag which jingled as if it contained coins. She foretold the weather and