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After a short distance a body had been dragged evidently. Roleau led the way through a tortuous path until they came in sight of a small vacant spot where sometime Indians had camped, as they could tell by the scorched and blackened trees. A nearly nude body had been fastened to one and a few dead branches gathered, evidently for a fire. Destournier stood speechless.
Then suddenly alarmed they had plunged farther into the forest, leaving one of their own wounded that Roleau had finished. Giffard had been captured in a moment of incautiousness, but the sights and the wantonness had fired his blood and roused a spirit of retaliation. They had nearly stripped both bodies, and carried off the garments.
It was Jacques Roleau they saw as he came in sight, one of the workmen at the fort. He gestured to them that all was right. "They have fled, what was left of them," he explained. "I despatched two wounded Iroquois that they had left behind.
The string was soon unfastened, and the contents of the parcel held up to the light. These were a roleau of gold onzas, a long-bladed knife, and a folded sheet of paper! The last occupied his attention first. The sun was down, and the light declining, but in front of the window there was still enough to enable him to read he opened the paper and read: "Your time is fixed for to-morrow.
They left Roleau in charge of the bodies and turned to the fort. The wounded had been made comfortable. Rose sprang down the steps to meet Destournier. "Oh, have you found him? Miladi is almost dead with grief and anxiety. She is sure they have killed M. Giffard." "Poor wife! How will we tell her?" "Oh, then he is dead?" The child's face was blanched with terror.
Sutherland was informed that his artillery was getting his own troops, he first asked on one telephone for another quart of whisky and later called up his artillery officer and ordered the deadly fire to lengthen range. This was observed by an American soldier, Ernest Roleau, at Verst 466, who acted as interpreter and orderly in Sutherland's headquarters that day.
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