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"Yes, but the report of the restoration had never been made to his rightful heirs. The papers had been held back and concealed, while those in authority planned how to retain possession. Cassion was chosen as an instrument, and sought my hand in marriage." De Artigny smothered an oath, his eyes darkening with anger.
Tis merely a question of justice to this lad here. I stand for fair trial with Henri de Tonty, and will back my judgment with my sword." They stood eye to eye, the four of them, and the group of soldiers seemed to divide, each company drawing together. Cassion growled some vague threat, but De Baugis took another course, gripping his companion by the arm.
The day this was accomplished the lost order was placed on file." "You saw it?" "Yes, I had the files searched secretly. The order was dispatched from France five years ago, but was stamped as received the day Cassion departed from Quebec." My eyes were upon the speaker and I failed to note how the accused man met this damning charge.
Cassion met us, attired so gaily in rich vestments that I scarcely recognized the man, whom I had always seen before in dull forest garb, yet I permitted him to take my hand and assist me gallantly to the shore.
They would bury me in the woods sacre! "Hush now Cassion has left the canoe already, and we can talk of this later. Let us seem to suspect nothing." This was the first meal of many eaten together along the river bank in the course of our long journey, yet the recollection of that scene rises before my memory now with peculiar vividness.
De Baugis, while no friend of mine, is still a fair minded man, and merciful. He cannot be made a tool for any purpose of revenge. This truth Major Cassion has doubtless learned, and hence assumes command himself to carry out his plans." I looked into the soldier's dark, clear-cut face, feeling a confidence in him, which impelled me to hold out my hand.
"No, Francois, 'tis not worth the danger," he expostulated. "There will be no crossing of steel. Monsieur Cassion, no doubt, hath reason to be angered but not I. The man shall have his trial, and we will learn the right and wrong of all this presently. Monsieur Tonty, the prisoner is left in your charge. Fall back men to your barracks. Madame, permit me to offer you my escort."
He meant all he said; he was honest in it; not once did I doubt that, yet his apparent indifference, his seeming willingness to leave me to fate, and Cassion, was all assumed. That one glimpse I had into his eyes told me this in a sudden revelation stronger than any words. I smiled at the recollection, the sense of power reawakening in my heart.
This misfortune served also to restore Monsieur Cassion to his natural ill temper, and led to a quarrel between himself and Chevet which might have ended seriously had I not intervened. The incident, however, left the Commissaire in ugly mood, and caused him to play the bully over his men. To me he was sullen, after an attempt at insolence, and sat glowering across the water, meditating revenge.
M. Cassion is yonder, and still in command." De Artigny glanced inquiringly at La Forest, and the latter stepped forward, a leather bound packet in his hands. "Your pardon, M. de Tonty," he said. "I had forgotten my true mission here. I bear orders from the King of France." "From Louis? La Salle has reached the King's ear?" "Ay, to good results. These are for you, Monsieur."
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