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Was not the law written plainly? Did the Onondaga wish to defy the law of their forefathers? The prisoners were theirs by right of their cunning. Let the Senecas proceed with their captives, as their villages were yet very far away, and they had spent much time in loitering. "We will buy," said Father Chaumonot, knowing the savage's cupidity. "Two belts of wampum."
His past troubles are none of my affairs. Let him prove a man. I ask no more of him than that. Father Chaumonot has told me that Monsieur le Marquis has given a thousand livres to the cause. The Chevalier will stand in well for the first promotion." "Thank you, Major. It is nine. I will go and compose verses till noon."
When he saw Du Puys and Bouchard pressing through the crowd, his lips relaxed. These were men whom he knew to be men and tried warriors. After greeting the two priests, Du Puys led them to a table and directed Maître le Borgne to bring supper for three. The Iroquois, receiving a pleasant nod from Father Chaumonot, took his place at the table.
But listen: human nature has not changed in these seven thousand years, nor will change. Only governments and fashions change . . . and religions." There was a pause. Chaumonot wondered vaguely how he could cope with this man who was flint, yet unresponsive to the stroke of steel. Had the possibility of the thousand livres become nothing? Again he sighed.
Chaumonot did not notice it, but the marquis, who was a perfect judge of all those subtile phases of conversation, caught the jangling note; and it caused him to draw together his brows in a puzzled frown. "Have I ever met you till now?" he asked. "Not that I know of, Monsieur." The tone was gentle, respectful.
Father Chaumonot and Brother Jacques shared the table with the poet, and both were reading.
The Fathers are well agreed that their difficulties did not arise from any natural defect of understanding on the part of the Indians, who, according to Chaumonot, were more intelligent than the French peasantry, and who, in some instances, showed in their way a marked capacity.
At length they reached Lake Ontario and skirted its southern shore until they entered the Oswego river. Ascending this river they were met by Chaumonot and an Onondaga delegation. On Lake Onondaga the canoes formed four abreast behind the canoe of the leader, from which streamed a white silk flag with the name Jesus woven on it in letters of gold.
Six years after, when the soil was impoverished and the wood in the neighborhood exhausted, they again changed their abode, and, under the auspices of the Jesuits, who owned the land, settled at Old Lorette, nine miles from Quebec. Chaumonot was at this time their missionary.
"And is there a remedy for a case such as you have described?" asked the Chevalier, half mockingly. "Yes; God gives us a remedy even for such an ill." "And what might the remedy be?" "Death." "What is your religious name, Monsieur?" asked the Chevalier, strangely subdued. "I am Father Jacques, protégé of the kindly Chaumonot. But I am known to my brothers and friends as Brother Jacques.
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