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Major Duncan has received some information which has led him to suspect that Eau-douce is false, and in the pay of the enemy; I wish to hear your opinion on the subject." "Anan?" "I say, the Major suspects Jasper of being a traitor a French spy or, what is worse, of being bought to betray us.
"You appear to think you know our situation pretty well, June," Mabel continued; "have you been on the island before this visit?" "Just come." "How then do you know that what you say is true? My father, the Pathfinder, and Eau-douce may all be here within sound of my voice, if I choose to call them." "All gone," said June positively, smiling good-humoredly at the same time.
Her first thought was of him, who was so likely to feel the recent betrayal of her real emotions. "Oh, Jasper," she exclaimed, like one suddenly self-convicted, "the Pathfinder!" Eau-douce fairly trembled, not with unmanly apprehension, but with the painful conviction of the pang he had given his friend; and he looked in all directions in the expectation of seeing his person.
Now I can consort with such a sailor as yourself, Eau-douce, and find nothing very contrary in our gifts, though yours belong to the lakes and mine to the woods. Hark'e, Jasper," continued the scout, laughing in his noiseless manner; "suppose we try the temper of his blade and run him over the falls?" "And what would be done with the pretty niece in the meanwhile?"
"Not at the wheel, sir, but down in the fore-peak in my berth. Eau-douce sent us below, soldiers and all, with the exception of the pilot, and we know no more of the road than if we had never been over it. This he has always done in going in and coming out; and, for the life of me, I could tell you nothing of the channel, or the course, after we are once fairly up with the islands.
I do believe Eau-douce loves you as well as I do myself; he has tried to persuade me that he loves you better, but that I will not allow, for I do not think it possible; but I will own the boy loves you, heart and soul, and he has a good right to be heard. The Sergeant left me your protector, and not your tyrant.
Water is the only thing in natur' that will thoroughly wash out a trail, and even water will not always do it when the scent is strong. Do you not see, Eau-douce, that if any Mingos have seen our path below the falls, they will strike off towards this smoke, and that they will naturally conclude that they who began by going up stream will end by going up stream.
"It leaves none, Eau-douce, hereaway, though I do not pretend to say what it may leave on the sea. Then a canoe is both swift and easy when it floats with the current, and the tender limbs of the Sergeant's daughter will be favored by its motion.
"A French master is but a poor instructor for a British sailor, notwithstanding." "I beg your pardon, sir: Jasper Eau-douce was brought up under a real English seaman, one that had sailed under the king's pennant, and may be called a thorough-bred; that is to say, a subject born in the colonies, but none the worse at his trade, I hope, Major Duncan, for that."
"Why, to own the truth, Arrowhead, we are out scouting like; that is, sailing in other words, we are on the king's business, and we have a right to be here, though we may not have a right to say why we are here." "Arrowhead saw the big canoe, and he loves to look on the face of Eau-douce.
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