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Updated: July 27, 2025
"I anticipated my fate to be a lonely meal, for the rascals worked like snails, and I would not leave them rest until all was finished. Faith, the odor is appetizing, and I am hungry as a bear." The younger priest waved his hand to the engagé, yet asked softly: "Monsieur Chevet he is delayed also?" "He will sup with his men tonight," returned Cassion shortly, seating himself on the bench.
"Dinner!" said Zoe, disdainfully; and sat down and eyed the Moresque walls around her, and the beauties of nature outside, and brought them together in one picture. Harrington was a long time in conclave with M. Chevet. Then Zoe became impatient. "Oh, do leave off ordering dinner," said she, "and take me out to that other paradise." The Chevet shrugged his shoulders with pity.
"Surely, my dear girl. He was here with La Salle before his chief sailed for France, and yesterday he came again, and questioned me." "Questioned you?" "Yes; he sought knowledge of you, and of why you were in the household of Chevet. I liked the young man, and told him all I knew, of your father's death and the decree of the court, and of how Chevet compelled you to leave the convent.
"Scarcely that, Monsieur, but a comrade; for three years I have been with his party, and was chosen by him for this mission." Cassion laughed, chucking the gloomy-faced Chevet in the side, as though he would give point to a good joke. "And little the trip hither has profited either master or man, I warrant. La Barre does not sell New France to every adventurer.
Occasionally the echo of a song reached my ears, and the distance was not so great but that I could distinguish individuals. Cassion sat upon a log directing operations, not even rising to lend a hand, but Chevet gave his great strength freely. De Artigny was back among the huts, in charge of that end of the line, no doubt, and it was only occasionally I gained glimpse of his presence.
Cesar excused his wife from the labor and difficulty of preparing at home the various viands demanded by the splendor of the entertainment. A diplomatic treaty was arranged between the famous Chevet and the perfumer.
'Tis hereby ordered that you accompany Commissaire Cassion to the Illinois country as interpreter, to be paid from my private fund." Chevet stared into the Governor's dark face, scarce able to comprehend, his brain dazed from heavy drinking. "The Illinois country! I Hugo Chevet? 'Tis some joke, Monsieur." "None at all, as you will discover presently, my man. I do not jest on the King's service."
You know the time, and that we talked together on the bench in the garden. Then it was three days since that he came to our house on the river, seeking Cassion that he might volunteer as guide. He had no thought of me, nor did he know me when we first met. There was no word spoken other than that of mere friendship, nor did I know then that Chevet had arranged my marriage to the Commissaire.
De Tonty and Cassion were at swords points over a charge the latter made against Rene de Artigny that he had murdered one of the party at St. Ignace." "Hugo Chevet, the fur trader." "Ay, that was the name. We of La Salle's company know it to be a lie. Sacre! I have served with that lad two years, and 'tis not in his nature to knife any man in the back.
His establishment consisted of a woman-cook and a valet; he hired two extra men, and had a dinner sent in by Chevet, whenever he gave a banquet to his political friends, to men he wanted to dazzle or to a family party.
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