"I want to have you with me for your own benefit, Archie; but there is another reason.  I have under my care a boy of about your own age, Hugh McLellan, the son of an old comrade, who died and left him to my charge, begging me to act the part of a father to him.  I have done so hitherto, and hope to do so as long as I live; you two must be friends.  Hugh is a fine, frank laddie, and you are sure to like one another.  As Sandy was not likely to prove a good tutor to him, I left him at Fort Edmonton when I came away, and we will call for him as we return."