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Everybody's eyes, the three of them, were on Donkin's fingers and the key. Carleton was like a man of stone, motionless, his face set harder than face was ever carved in marble. It grew hot in the room; but Donkin's fingers were like ice on the key, and, strong man though he was, he faltered.
Regimental duties in a country district rarely afford matter worthy of particular record; and it is not until the troubles of our Revolutionary War break out, that we find anything of mark in his story. He was with the troops that Carleton sent down, after the fall of Ticonderoga, to garrison Chambly and St. John's, and to hold the passage of the Sorel against Montgomery and his little army.
"She is to act under direction now." "Not at all only under safe control," he said, laughing. "I am very glad of the difference, Mr. Carleton," said Fleda, with a grave and grateful remembrance of it. "If you think the sprite's old office is gone, you are mistaken," said he.
Many times throughout the war, in churches deserted or occupied, alone or in the public service, in the soldier's camp-church or meeting in the open air, wherever there was an instrument with keys, Carleton was a valued participant and aid in worship. Religious music was his favorite, but he delighted in all sweet melodies. He loved the Boston Symphony concerts and the grand opera.
Carleton sat down and drew his little charge to his breast; and spoke words of soothing and sympathy. "I am very sorry I brought you here, dear Elfie," he said kindly. "It was too hard for you." "Oh, no!" even through her tears, Fleda said, "she was very glad!" "Hadn't we better try to overtake our friends?" he whispered, after another pause.
About noon, Carleton made a sortie at the head of one thousand men, formed in two divisions, and supported by six field pieces. The Americans had thrown up no intrenchments, and could not bring into action more than three hundred men. Under these circumstances, victory was scarcely possible, and could have produced no important effect.
When he had satisfied himself this, his first impulse was to rush to the Castle, announce the outrage to Carleton himself, and head a terrible crusade against all the rebel French. But, with a moment's reflection, his better nature prevailed. "Never," he exclaimed, as he paced his room. "Never, I am a Frenchman before all. Loyalty to England does not require treason to my own countrymen.
The work was completed in the month of May, and Charles Carleton Coffin gave the first alarm of fire ever transmitted by the electric apparatus. The system was a great curiosity, and many distinguished men of this country, and from Europe, especially from Russia and France, came to inspect its working.
The government, however, took no decisive action, and next year both Carleton and Simcoe left Canada for ever. When this unfortunate quarrel began Canada was in grave danger of being attacked by both the French and the American republics.
With an exclamation of affright, Jack Carleton whirled on his heel and found the broad, grinning face of one of the warriors almost against his own. Holding the rifle back, as if expecting an attempt to recover it, the savage thrust his head forward, with a tantalizing expression overspreading his ugly features. At the same moment he muttered something very rapidly in his own tongue.
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