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The old sailor alone was missing ! CHAPTER X . A RETROSPECT . It was about ten o'clock the same night when Mrs Barnett and Lieutenant Hobson knocked at the postern gate of the fort . Great was the joy on seeing them , for they had been given up for lost ; but this joy was turned to mourning at the news of the death of Norman . The brave fellow had been beloved by all , and his loss was sincerely mourned . The intrepid and devoted Esquimaux received phlegmatically the earnest expressions of gratitude of those they had saved , and coulot be persuaded to come to the fort .