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Cdpu'eS Oh the irOquOlS-tnat these
captives would naturally come to the
| settlements or :ie St. Lawrence, since
| IL was the French against whom the
! lro7ucis had been at war: that having
come to- Montreal. you would naturally
remain here for time. The rest was
| easy. | Jared on to the straits this
spring. and then on down the lakes.
have sold our furs, and am now ready
| TO account to you with sum quite
as much as we should have expected.
Now, Monsieur and Du Mesne
stretched out his arm again, pointing
to the down-coming flood of the St
Lawrence, Monsieur, will you come?
| see not the St Lawrence, but the
Messasebe. | can hear the voices call
ing!"
Law dashed his hand across his eyes
and turned his head away. Not yet.
Du Mesne," said he. II do not know.
Not yet. | must first go across the
waters. Perhaps sometime-I can not
| tell. But this, my comrades, my
brothers, | do know; that never. until
the last sod lies on my grave. will
| forget the Messasebe, or forget YOU
Go back, if you will my brothers: but
at night, when you sit by your freside,
| think of me. as | shall think of you.
there in the great valley. My friends.
it is the heart of the world"
But Monsieur"
There, Du Mesne-I would not talk
to-day At another time. Brothers,
| adieu!"
"Adieu, my brother" said the cour-
his amntinn Sbnytinu In,
| eyes; and their hands met again.
Monsieur is cast down." said Du
Mesne to Pierre Noir later. as they
reached the beach. Now, what think
you?"
Usually, as you know, Pierre. it is
question of some woman. 1t reminds
me, Wabana was remiss enough when
| left her among the Ilini with you.
Now, God bless my heart. find her
how think you? With her cruciflx lost.
cooking for dirty Ojibway."
Mary Mother!" said Pierre Noir IF
it be matter of woman-wen. God
help us all, At least tbs something
that will take Monsieur Las over seas
again"
"Tis mostly woman" mused Du
True, they pass the wit of all Now.
did | ever tell thee about the mission
girl at Michilimackinac-bu stay,
That for another time. They tell me
that our comrade. Greysolon .du Lhut.
is expected in tomorrow with a party
from the far end of Superior. Come,
let us have the news"
'Tous les pTintemps.
Tant des nOuvelles,"
hummed Du Mesne. as he flung his arm
above the shoulder of the other; and
the Two so disappeared adown the
beach
Duly, alphabetically, Law lived on
his life here at Montreal for yet a time
at the edge of that wilderness which
had proved all else but Eden. Near TO
him, though in these guarded times
guest by necessity of the good sisters
OF the Convent dwelt Mary Connynge
And as fer these two, it might be said
that each but bided the time To her
Law might as well have been one of the
corded Sulpician priests; and she to
him, for all he liked, one of the NUNS
OF the Convent garden. What did it all
asked himself a thousand times: and
thousand times his mind failed him of
any answer. He waited, watching the
great encampment disappear, first
slowly then swiftly and suddenly. so
that in night the last of the lodges
had gone and the last canoe had left
the shore. There remained only the
| hurrying flood of the st. Lawrence.
| coming from the west
The autumn came on. Early in NJ
vember the ships would leave for
France. Yet before the beginning of
November there came swiftly and
Sharply the settlement of the questions
which racked Laws mind One morn
ing Mary Connynge was missing from
the Convent, nor could any of the sis
ters nor the mother superior. explain
how or when she had departed,
Yet, had there been close observers
there might have been seen a boat
dropping down the river on the early
morning of that day And at Quebec
there was later reported in the books
OF the intendant the shipping. upon the
| good bark Dauphine, of Lieutenant
| Raoul de Ligny. sometime officer of
the regiment Carignan, formerly sta
toned in New France; with him
lady recently from Montreal. known
very well to Lieutenant de Ligny and
| his family; and to be in his care en-
voyage to France; the name of said
lady illegible upon the records the
spelling apparently not having suited
! the clerk who wrote II. and then for
! got II in the press OF other things.
| Certain Of the governors household
\ as we'll as two or three habitants
| from the lower town. witnessed the ar
| rival of this lady, who came down from
! Montreal They saw her take boat for
| The bars Dauphine, one Of the last
/ ships 10 20 down the river that fall
/ Yes. n wac on.ilv to no cstahlishna