The culprits were all set free or left unmolested. The two Davis
brothers disappeared, evidently across the lines. Old man Newcome is
said to have been converted by Father Newberry and to be living a life
in keeping with the exalted station of his daughter Serlizer. Reginald
Rawdon's son was looked up by Mr. Bangs, and started in business in a
new town, as a country store-keeper, on part of his uncle's ill-gotten
money. Monty, growing a big lad, has charge of the farm at Bangslea,
and, to see him and his grey-haired, but otherwise young-looking,
mother, none would think they had ever been deprived of their reason.
The character of Nagle, alias Nash, has been amply cleared by his
friend, who has erected a suitable memorial to him at Collingwood
cemetery. Peskiwanchow is hardly recognizable in its reformed condition,
and the Beaver River, like the Flanders' lakes, is safer to visit,
though otherwise as delightful as ever, than when the Maple Inn was
invaded by two knapsacks. Mr. Bulky is still its hero, and Wilkinson,
who does not smoke, has had him up to Tillycot with Mr. Bigglethorpe and
without his fishing coat.
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