Part Indian himself, Cadotte could never have understood the lad’s
amazement and consternation at learning now, for the first time, of his half-brother.
“My father,” Hugh went on, “bade Blaise, my half-brother, tell me to—come to the Kaministikwia and meet Blaise there. He wished me to—to make my brother’s acquaintance and—and receive from him—something my father left me,” he ...