“But how’ll we be gettin’ un now?” Bob asked, much puzzled.  “An’ how’ll we be findin’ th’ owner?”

“Th’ owner,” explained Douglas, “will be doin’ th’ findin’ hisself I’m thinkin’.  But t’ get th’ salvage th’ schooner’ll ha’ t’ be took t’ St. Johns.  Now I’m not knowin’ but I could pilot she over.  ’Tis a many a long year since I were there but I’m thinkin’ I could manage un, and we’ll make up a crew an’ sail she over.”

“We’ll be needin’ five t’ handle she right,” said Bob. “’Twere wonderful hard gettin’ on wi’ just me an’ th’ two huskies.  We’ll sure need five.”

“Aye, ‘twill need five of us,” assented Douglas, “I’m thinkin’ now Dick an’ Ed an’ Bill would like t’ be makin’ th’ cruise an’ seein’ St. Johns, an’ we has th’ crew right here.”

The three men were not only willing to go but delighted with the prospect of the journey.  They had never in their lives been outside the bay and the voyage offered them an opportunity to see something of the great world of which they had heard so much.

“I’ll be wantin’ t’ go home first,” said Dick, “an’ so will Ed, but we’ll be t’ Kenemish an’ ready t’ start in three days.”

“‘Twill be a fine way t’ take th’ maid t’ th’ mail boat so th’ doctor can take she with un,” suggested Richard.

“An’ father an’ mother an’ Bessie can go t’ th’ mail boat with us,” spoke up Emily, from her couch.  “Oh, ‘twill be fine t’ have you all go t’ th’ mail boat with me!”

And so this arrangement was made and carried out.  On the appointed day every one was aboard the Maid of the North, and with light hearts the voyage was begun.

Two days later they reached Fort Pelican, when Netseksoak and Aluktook went ashore to await the arrival of the ship that was to take them to their far northern home, and Bob said good-bye to the two faithful friends with whom he had braved so many dangers and suffered so many hardships.

The following morning the mail boat steamed in, and Emily was transferred to her in charge of the doctor, who greeted her kindly and promised,

“You’ll be going home a new girl in the fall, and your father and mother won’t know you.”

Nevertheless the parting from her friends was very hard for Emily, and the mother and child, and Bessie too, shed a good many tears, though the fact that she was to see Bob in a little while in St. Johns comforted Emily somewhat.

When the mail boat was finally gone, Richard Gray, with his wife and Bessie, turned homeward in their dory, which had been brought down in tow of the Maid of the North, and the schooner spread her sails to the breeze and passed to the southward.

With some delays caused by bad weather, three weeks elapsed before the Maid of the North one day, late in July, sailed through the narrows past the towering cliffs of Signal Hill, and anchored in the land-locked harbour of St. Johns.