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The canoe was turned about in an instant, and as quick came floating over the water the words: "Me, Paul: Me, Paul Guidon!" She threw him a small line and then invited him to come on board, immediately resuming her former position with the musket by her side. The Indian came on board, fastened his frail bark and stood for a moment watching the retreating tide. Mrs.
Nobody thought much of that at Fort Guidon, except, perhaps, Pierre, who sometimes said, "My simple king, some day you shall have your great chance again; but not as a king as a giant, a man voila!" The day did not come immediately, but it came.
Girard had participated in great military crises; he had marshalled his troop in line of battle; as a mere boy, he had ridden with the guidon lance planted on his stirrup, with the pennant flying above his head, as the marker to lead the fierce and famous Dov-inger Rangers into the thickest of the fight; yet he had never felt such palpitant tremors of excitement as when he stood on the hotel piazza of the New Helvetia Springs, where the banqueters had gathered, and suffered the ordeal of introduction to sundry groups of fashionable ladies.
They were attended by a body of about fifty soldiers, arranged under the guidon of England. When the Lady Eveline appeared at the barrier, the knight, after a slight reverence, which seemed more informal courtesy than in kindness, demanded if he saw the daughter of Raymond Berenger.
Paul stood before her, panting like a stricken deer, with but one of the children in his arms. As Margaret looked at him her pale face turned ashen white, her lips quivered and she fell into the arms of Paul Guidon as if dead. He sat down upon a rock, and by the lightning's flash bathed her temples with water from the sea shore.
Margaret recognized the ring as the one she had lost during the assault of the rebels at Grimross, in 1776. She missed it from off her finger soon after the cross-eyed, monkey-faced rebel "Will," had pulled her about the floor by the hand, and never saw or heard of it after. Paul Guidon often said to Mrs. Godfrey, that he believed the rebel "Will" had stolen her ring.
She said to Paul Guidon, "the rebels may kill my husband, my children and myself, but from this hour their threats shall not intimidate me from acting as a British subject should act in a British Colony. I shall do my duty, for under God I am determined whenever and however we attempt to make our escape, if I have to die I shall die free and not as a slave or traitor."
She and Pierre had seen a serious side to Macavoy's gift: the childlike manliness in it. It went home to her woman's heart without a touch of ludicrousness, without a sound of laughter. After a time the interest in this wedding-gift declined at Fort Guidon, and but three people remembered it with any singular distinctness Ida, Pierre, and Macavoy.
A guidon danced by; more guns, more caissons, then a trampling, plunging gallop, a rattle of sabres and the battery had passed. "What is that heavy sound behind the hills?" whispered the boy. "The river rushing over the shallows perhaps a train on the trestle at Oxley Court House " She listened, resting her rounded chin on her hands. "It is thunder, I think. Go to bed now for a while "
Then I wrested the revolver from her. It had been a trumpet note, and a cavalry guidon and a rank of bobbing figures had come galloping, galloping over an imperceptible swell. She cried to me, from my feet. "You didn't do it! You didn't do it!" "We're saved," I blatted. "Hurrah! We're saved! The soldiers are here." Again the trumpet pealed, lilting silvery. She tottered up, clinging to me.
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