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Scowl if you will, but here is La Barre's commission, and I dare you ignore it. So answer me, Madame you saw De Artigny bend over the body of Chevet was your uncle then dead?" "I know not, Monsieur; but there was no movement." "Why did you make no report? was it to shield De Artigny?" I hesitated, yet the answer had to be made. "The Sieur de Artigny was my friend, Monsieur.
I held out to him the page from La Barre's letter. De Tonty took the paper from my hand, glanced at it, then lifted his eyes inquiringly to mine. "'Tis in the governor's own hand. How came this in your possession?" "I found it in Cassion's private bag last night, under the berth yonder. Later he came and carried the bag away, never suspecting it had been opened. His commission was there also.
My only fear was encountering someone I knew while seeking you on the floor." "You entered through this window?" "Yes; there is a lattice work below." "And whose office is that within?" "My guess is that of Colonel Delguard, La Barre's chief of staff, for there was a letter for him lying on the desk. What difference? You are glad I came?"
They are La Barre's men, and hold commission only at his pleasure. With M. de la Durantaye it is different, for he was soldier of Frontenac's, yet I have no hope he will dare stand out against the rest. We must find another way to save the lad, but when I leave you at the door yonder I am out of it." "You, Monsieur! what can I hope to accomplish without your aid?"
On the 22d of April the 162d New York, under Blanchard, with a section of the 1st Maine battery and one troop of the 2d Rhode Island cavalry, marched to Barré's Landing, seized the position, and captured the little steamboat Ellen, the last of the Teche fleet.
Barre's sword again made a clear circle round him, and he said: "Shame, Frenchmen! This gentleman is no spy. He is the friend of the Governor he is my friend. He is English? Well, where is the English flag, there are the French good French-protected. Where is the French flag, there shall the English good English be safe."
He commanded Fort Frontenac, which belonged to La Salle, when La Barre's associates, La Chesnaye and Le Ber, armed with an order from the governor, came up from Montreal, and seized upon the place with all that it contained. La Foret was told that he might retain his command, if he would join the faction of La Barre; but he refused, stood true to his chief, and soon after sailed for France.
"None, Monsieur; they were either destroyed in accordance with La Barre's instructions, or else M. Cassion has them on his person." "But I do not understand the reason for such foul treachery. What occurred back in New France to cause the murder of Chevet, and this attempt to convict De Artigny of the crime?" "Sit here, Monsieur," I said, my voice trembling, "and I will tell you the whole story.
And while he felt slight friendship for Cassion, he was still La Barre's man, and would obey his orders. He wished me out of the way for a purpose. What purpose? That I might not hear the lying testimony of those soldiers and Indians, who would swear as they were told.
'I have been informed, politely writes the king, 'that your years do not permit you to support the fatigues inseparable from your office of governor and lieutenant-general in Canada. La Barre's successor, the Marquis de Denonville, arrived at Quebec in August 1685. Like La Barre, he was a soldier; like Frontenac, he was an aristocrat as well.
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