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"Das so, Geo'ge," said Peter, nodding approval. After breakfast Foster sought a private interview with Hester, who undertook, with much fear, to communicate the news to Laronde. "You see, I think it will come best from you, Hester," said George in a grave fatherly manner, "because a woman always does these sort of things better than a man, and besides, poor Laronde is uncommonly fond of you, as "
"Ho, yis! bery close at hand, Geo'ge!" said Peter himself, suddenly emerging from a place of concealment. "Now you come along wid me, sar, an' let dat poo' chile meet her fadder in private." "But she cannot do that, Peter, for Edouard Laronde is with him." "Who'n all de wurld's Eddard Larongd?"
On hearing this one of the slaves was observed to reach out his hand and shake another slave who still slumbered. "Rouse up, Sommers! You are wanted, my poor friend." "What say you, Laronde?" exclaimed the merchant, starting up and rubbing his eyes. "Get up and follow me," said Foster, in a stern commanding tone.
Dere's some sense in dat," muttered the negro as he quietly continued to pack the valise. Two hours later and Laronde was dashing across country as fast as four good horses could take him, with George Foster on one side, Peter the Great on the other, and Brown on the box-seat the fo'c'sl, he called it beside the red-coated driver.
"Is Laronde better this morning?" she asked as her son sat down on a sofa at the foot of her bed. "I don't know, mother haven't been to his room this morning. Why do you ask? Has anything happened?" "I will tell you presently, but first let me know what success you have had in your search." "Nothing but failure," said the middy, in a desponding tone.
"With God's blessing," interjected Mrs Foster. "Admitted with the blessing of the Great Physician that is the natural cure." "Very true, George, but you wisely spoke of small doses. I am not sure that it would be safe to tell Monsieur Laronde that we have actually found his wife and child. He also is too weak to bear much agitation."
The pride you have referred to I admit, though it is by no means confined to my own countrymen! Too long have I given way to it, and acted independently of my Maker. Perhaps God sent me here to convince me of my sin and helplessness." "There is no God. I do not believe in a God," said Laronde calmly. "Why not?" asked Sommers, in surprise.
Knock off his irons," he added, turning abruptly to the chief jailer. The air of insolent authority which our `hipperkritical' middy assumed was so effective that even Sommers was slightly overawed. While the irons were being removed, the unhappy Frenchman, Edouard Laronde, sought to console him. "I told you it would soon come to this," he said in English.
"So hab I, Geo'ge," remarked Peter the Great, from behind the chair of Miss Sommers, who presided at the breakfast table, for although Peter had resigned his right to equality as to feeding, he by no means gave up his claim to that of social intercourse. "Come, Laronde.
Brown the sailor was also there, for, being a pleasant as well as a sharp man, young Foster resolved to get him into the Navy, and, if possible, into the same ship with himself. Meanwhile he retained him to assist in the search for Marie Laronde and her daughter. Last, but by no means least, Peter the Great was there not as one of the breakfast party, but as a waiter.
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