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hours of a Sunday morning while he was alone on the white-

mantled prairie created an impression of solemnity andl

' grandeur about the tragedy, and always afterwards among

the purity of his life and the whiteness of the stretches a
mung which his last hoursiwgie spent blended softly in the
thoughts of”those who had cdaimed.his friendship.

Damien Graton was born at St Martin, Qnebeo, Sept. 11,
1858. He reoeived.much of his education at Ste Therese,
oompleting his oourse in theology at Montreal. Ordained
in 1882, he spent a couple of years as secretary to Arch-»
bishop Fabre, then served as vicar at two villages before I
he came to Regina. From the time he was two years old,
Damien had been cared for by his aunt,,rademoiselle.
Sauriol. she was devoted.to the boy who was frail of body,
and she came west with him.

The first week of March, 1891, the young priest's
affairs required that he visit old Father St Germaine at
Willow Bunch,,and Father Pascal Bonneau at Wood.Mountain;n»gasam~1g
he made a point of seeing how schoolamatters were going amwvwg.
the half-breeds. The trip was made in a prairie schooner
on runners. The covered caravan was equipped with a stove
bflankets and food, and the priest himself stowed in his
§§EE—shoes. Herb Goldie went along as driver and oom-
panion on the journey.

"We shall try to get home by Saturday night", said Fathr
er Graton to his aunt when leaving,flbut the roads are n
h°3VW “d it may be We cannot arrive till Sunday morning;
Iwill gs back for the service without fail,,and I wish
you to have the church ready anditoering the bell when you

see us coming across the prairie"%