‘Then my ears did not deceive me?’ exclaimed Maitland.  ’When you left me, Henrich, in the midst of that fearful fray, I thought I heard you pronounce my name; and the sound startled me strangely.  Have you, then, called your unconscious companion by your father’s name; and in all your wanderings, and your trials, and temptations, has that name been dear to you?’

‘Heaven only knows how dear!’ replied the Sachem.  ’The remembrance of my parents, and all they taught me in my childhood, has been not only my joy and consolation, but my safeguard also.  You will find me very unlearned and ignorant in all worldly knowledge, for I have had no means of keeping up the little I had acquired.  But, God be praised!  I have been kept from forgetting Him, and the Saviour in whom you taught me to put my trust.  Nor have I been quite alone in my faith.  One there is of whom I shall have much to tell you in the course of my history, who has been, and is, my spiritual companion and support.  I have had many blessings!’

’How truly is it declared, “Not by might, nor by power, but by my Spirit, saith the Lord"!’ exclaimed Helen, as she raised her eyes in grateful gratitude to Heaven.  Now she and Rodolph felt that they had, indeed, recovered their lost son—­not for time alone, but for eternity.

Henrich’s long and adventurous story was told:  and so many were the questions and the comments that it called forth, that long are it was finished the light of day had all departed, and been replaced by the softer rays of the unclouded moon.  It was with mingled feelings of disappointment and of gratitude, that Henrich’s friends heard of his marriage with an Indian female.  But as he described her character, and spoke of her sincere and humble faith, and of all that she had been to him since the first day of his captivity, they became more than reconciled to the alliance, and thanked God who had so mercifully provided their son with such a friend and companion, to cheer his otherwise lonely life.  They, and Edith also, felt impatient to become acquainted with this new relative, whom they were already prepared to love; and, as she was now dwelling near Cape Cod with her father and the rest of her tribe, they hoped to do so before the winter set in.

Henrich promised that this hope should be compiled with; but it was a source of sorrow and disappointment to his family, when they heard that he was pledged to the aged Tisquantum never to take his only and beloved child from him as long as he lived.  He could not, therefore, at present change his mode of life, or take up his abode at New Plymouth but must return to dwell with his Indian friends, and fill the place of Tisquantum’s son and representative, until the old man should be gathered to his fathers.