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In short, one needs the patience of an angel to get on with these devils; and yet one must always force himself to seem pleased with them." [Footnote 305: Dieskau
"Perhaps Dieskau is already on the march," said the Onondaga. "The glories that St. Luc, Dumas, Ligneris and the others won at Duquesne will not let him sleep. He would surpass them. He would repeat on the shores of Andiatarocte what they did so triumphantly by the ford of the Monongahela." "Thunderation!" exclaimed Rogers. "The boy may be right! They may be even now stealing a march on us!
"I like M. de Montcalm very much," he writes to the minister, "and will do the impossible to deserve his confidence. I have spoken to him in the same terms as to M. Dieskau; thus: 'Trust only the French regulars for an expedition, but use the Canadians and Indians to harass the enemy.
"I saw that regiment die almost to a man. I saw Dieskau fall; I saw that gay young officer, de Contrecoeur, who had nicknamed himself Jean Coeur, laugh at our Iroquois as he stood almost alone almost the last man living, among his fallen white-coats.
The fire was hot for about an hour. Titcomb was shot dead, a rod in front of the barricade, firing from behind a tree like a common soldier. At length Dieskau, exposing himself within short range of the English line, was hit in the leg.
We must make our blow so heavy that it will check Dieskau for a while and give Colonel Johnson's army time to march." "Even so, Dagaeoga. Look at the Mountain Wolf. He has a pair of field glasses and he is studying the island." Rogers stood on a knoll, and he was making diligent use of his glasses, excellent for the time. He took them from his eyes presently, and walked down to Robert and Tayoga.
General Johnson, of the Mohawk country, at the head of a large colonial force, defeated Baron Dieskau at the foot of Lake George, which then received its present name in honour of the King of England, and the French general himself was taken prisoner.
Luc himself was in the very van and that he would probably strike the first blow. After they had made sure that Dieskau would not attack Fort Lyman, but was marching straight against Johnson, the little force turned aside, and prepared to make a circuit with all the speed it could command.
"It is sure now," he said joyfully, "that Waraiyageh and Dieskau cannot meet before I am able to do battle." "Anyhow, they wouldn't think of fighting until you came, Tayoga," said Robert. Their spirits were very high. They felt that they had been released from great danger, some of which they could not fathom, and they would soon leave the hollow.
In another hour they were at the pond, and they found the Mohawk chieftain and his men sitting at its edge. "Well, Daganoweda," said Willet, "is it as we thought?" Daganoweda rose and waved his hand significantly toward the south. "Dieskau with his army has gone to fall upon Waraiyageh," he said. "We went close up to the walls, and we even heard talk.
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