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"Decidedly not," said the officer with an oath. "They have led us a pretty dance, and what's the good of food to men about to be shot!" "But they may fall from exhaustion before we reach Rennes," suggested the sergeant, "and that may cause delay. They have had nothing for near twelve hours, mon capitaine, and marching best part of the time."
"They will show fight, surely enough, mon capitaine," put in Leclair, as he and the major made their way to the oddly tiptilted door leading back into the main corridor. "I know these folk. No blank cartridges will scatter that breed. Even the Turks are afraid of them. They have a proverb: 'Feed the Beni Harb, and they will fire at Allah! That says it all. "Mohammed laid a special curse on them.
If his expedition had done no more, it had at least revealed clearly the deplorable condition of French interests in the West. Louis, Capitaine Commandant un détachement envoyé dans la Belle Rivière par les ordres de M. le Marquis de La Galissonière, etc. While Céloron was warning English traders from the Ohio, a plan was on foot in Virginia for a new invasion of the French domain.
"Yes; and of course you must be landed there." "And that would lose you the race?" "Certainly." "Then, of course, I must not be landed there. What care I for a day? I am not so old but that I can spare one. Ha! ha! ha! You shall not lose your race, and the reputation of your fine boat, on my account. Think not of landing, cher Capitaine! Take me on to Baton Rouge. I can get back in the morning!"
They took leave of me with some solemnity on the pavement outside the restaurant, but Monsieur Decresson, before stepping into his automobile, drew me a little on one side. "Capitaine Rotherby," he said, "you have been dealt with to-day as a very privileged person.
And as the Gouverneur Faulkner spoke those words to my Capitaine, the Count de Lasselles, with a great courtesy but also a great sternness, in which he named me not as his friend but as the friend of that Capitaine, the Count de Lasselles, I knew that I was placed by him among all women liars of the world and that to him his boy Robert of honor was of a truth dead forever.
"I wept when I must see my good friend, Capitaine, the Count de Lasselles, depart from our ship in one of those tug boats. It was a pain in my breast that he must leave me to go into the wildness of Canada."
And from that long table there came to me such beautiful and loving smiles over the glasses of champagne that they went to my head instead of the wine I could not even sip because of the tears in my throat. It was as that day upon the great ship when I saw fulfilled before my eyes my vow to my Capitaine, the Count de Lasselles: "Friends for France."
She has dropped her ring in the brook," said the baroness, in English, turning to me. "If she will have the kindness to take me there," I said to the hostess, rising as I spoke, "I shall try to get it for her." "M'sieur le Capitaine, you are very obliging," said she. Then, turning to Louison, she added in French: "Go with him. He will recover it for you."
The professor, obviously disappointed, turned again to the bomb that was fast reaching a state of déshabille if bombs can be said to reach that state. "You assume this to be the work of people on that yacht," he said, with a touch of annoyance. "Can you sustain that theory?" "Why, of course, sir," Gates declared. "A mere presumption, mon Capitaine!" "But the voice," I challenged.
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