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"Have you seen D'Aulnay?" "No, madame." "You look haggard, Klussman." "If I look haggard, madame, it must come from seeing two women follow you, when I should see only one." He threw sharp glances behind her, as he took her hand to lead her up the steep path. Marie's attendant was carrying the baby, and she lifted it for him to look at, the hairs on her upper lip moved by a good-natured smile.
Port Royal sent out no ships except D'Aulnay's, and on La Tour's side of Acadia his was the only vessel. Certain of nothing except that these unknown comers intended to enter St. John River, Madame La Tour went downstairs and met Klussman on the wall. He turned from his outlook and said directly, "Madame, I believe it is D'Aulnay." "You may be right," she answered. "Is any one outside the gates?"
His wife died. They made me take care of it," said Marguerite resentfully. "Why didn't you tell me that?" exclaimed Klussman. "You made me lie to my lady!" Marguerite had no answer. He understood her reticence, and the degradation which could not be excused. "Who made you take care of it?" "He did." "D'Aulnay?" Klussman uttered through his teeth. "Yes; I don't like him."
They guaranteed to Madame La Tour the safety of her garrison, who were to march out with their arms and personal belongings, the household goods of her people; and La Tour's ship with provisions enough to stock it for a voyage. The money, merchandise, stores, jewels and ordnance fell to D'Aulnay with the fort. D'Aulnay marched directly on his conquest.
"My men," said Marie, "when the Sieur de la Tour set out to northern Acadia he dreaded such a move as this on D'Aulnay's part. But I assured him he need not fear for us." The soldiers murmured their joy and looked at one another smiling. "The Sieur de la Tour will soon return, with help or without it. And D'Aulnay has no means of learning how small our garrison is.
He intended to tell the sentinels that D'Aulnay had sent him with a message to the commandant of St. John. The guards, discerning his capote, would perhaps obey a beckoning finger, and believe that he had been charged with silence; for not having heard the churchman's voice he dared not try to imitate it, and must whisper.
Subsequently the two rivals quarrelled, and in 1641 D'Aulnay obtained an order from the king deposing De la Tour, but the latter refused obedience and sent an envoy to Boston in November, 1641, to solicit aid.
Speak to the governor of Acadia; for you, Monsieur Corlaer, are a man of affairs, and this good missionary is a saint you can move D'Aulnay de Charnisay to see it is not the custom, even in warfare with women, to trap and hang a garrison who has made honorable surrender."
"Close my tent," said D'Aulnay, rising, "and set the table within." "My lord," spoke out the subordinate, "I did not tell you the men were thrown into confusion around the Swiss." "Well, monsieur?" responded D'Aulnay curtly, with an attentive eye. "There was a stampede of the cattle loosened from the stable. Father Vincent fell into the empty trench.
Father Jogues' donné walked behind Van Corlaer, and he alone overheard the Dutchman's talk. "This lady of Fort St. John, Father Jogues, so housed, and so ground between the millstones of La Tour and D'Aulnay she hath wrought up my mind until I could not forbear this journey. It is well known through the colonies that La Tour can no longer get help, and is outlawed by his king.
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