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Updated: June 11, 2025
"Do we do we go down here, Monsieur?" I questioned, my voice faltering. "Here, or not at all; there are guards posted yonder every two yards. This is our only chance to escape unseen." Boisrondet tested the rope, letting it slip slowly through his hands down into the darkness below, until it hung at full length. "It does not touch," he said, "yet it cannot lack more than a foot or two. Faith!
Boisrondet and Étienne Renault also walked at his side into the open space between two barbaric armies. The Iroquois did not stop firing when he held up and waved the belt in his left hand. Bullets spattered on the hummocky sod of the prairie around him. "Go back," Tonty said to Boisrondet and Renault and the young Indian. "What need is there of so many? Take the lad back, Boisrondet."
Rene, you have walked this path before." "Ay, years since, but I recall its peril." We crept forward, so cautiously it seemed we scarcely moved, the rock shelf we traversed so narrow in places that I could scarce find space in which to plant my feet firmly. Boisrondet whispered words of guidance back to me, and I could feel De Artigny touch my skirt as he followed, ready to grip me if I fell.
What had happened; what was happening out there in the mystery? All I could do was pray, and wait. Perhaps no word would be given me the escape might already be accomplished, and I left here to my fate. Boisrondet knew nothing of my decision to accompany De Artigny in his exile. If the way was difficult and dangerous, he might not consider it essential to communicate with me at all.
Boisrondet stepped back, and, hat in hand, bowed to me. "Adieu, Madame; a pleasant journey." "A moment, Monsieur," I said, a falter in my voice. "You are M. de Artigny's friend, an officer of France, and a Catholic." "Yes, Madame." "And you think that I am right in my choice? that I am doing naught unworthy of my womanhood?"
All night the French stood guard for fear of being surprised and massacred in their lodge. At daybreak the chiefs ordered them to go without waiting another hour, and gave them a leaky boat. Tonty had protected the retreat of the Illinois as long as he could. With the two Récollets, Boisrondet, young Renault, and L'Esperance, and with little else, he set out up the river.
There are no more in the fort, officers, Indians, and all; and Boisrondet says scarcely a dozen rounds of powder and ball to a man. If the Iroquois know this and why should they not? 'twill be no great feat of arms to batter their way in. I would do that which is right, Adele, if I saw clearly." I clung to his hands, staring back still at the grim outline of the silent fort.
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