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Yes, of course they got off -- the next day. At the foot of the island, / two miles below, there is a place where the water runs quieter, and a / BATEAU can cross from the main shore. Francois was frightened when the / others did not come back in the evening. He made his way around to St. / Joseph d'Alma, and got a boat to come up and look for their bodies. He / found them on the shore, alive and very hungry. But all that has nothing / to do with the story.
Nor does it make any difference how Alden spent the rest of his summer / in the woods, what kind of fishing he had, or what moved him to leave / five hundred dollars with Jean when he went away. That is all padding: / leave it out. The first point of interest is what Jean did with the / money. A suit of clothes, a new stove, and a set of kitchen utensils for / the log house opposite Grosse Ile, a trip to Quebec, a little game of / "Blof Americain" in the back room of the Hotel du Nord, -- that was the / end of the money.