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Again light dawned on me. He was still with the Governor in all fact, though soldiering for Bigot a sort of watch upon the Intendant. I saw my chance. If I could but induce this fellow to fetch me Voban! There was yet an hour before I was to go to the intendance.
Two hours afterwards I went to the Intendance, and there I found that the body of my enemy had been placed in the room where I had last seen him with Alixe. He lay on the same couch where she had lain. The flag of France covered his broken body, but his face was untouched as it had been in life, haunting, fascinating, though the shifting lights were gone, the fine eyes closed.
She walked lame, and must use a stick, and we issued forth towards the Intendance, Mathilde remaining behind. "When we got to the palace, and were admitted, I asked for the Intendant's valet, and we stood waiting in the cold hall until he was brought. 'We come from Voban, the barber, I whispered to him, for there were servants near; and he led us at once to his private room.
He had landed at Gaspe, and had come on to Quebec overland. Arriving at the Intendance, he had awaited Doltaire's coming. Doltaire had stopped to visit General Montcalm at Montmorenci Falls, on his way back from an expedition to the English country, and had thus himself brought my protection and hurried to his own undoing. I was thankful for his downfall, though I believed it was but for a moment.
Already the streets of the town were filling; for it was the day before Christmas, and it would be the great market-day of the year. Few noticed us as we sped along down Palace Street and I could not conceive whither we were going, until, passing the Hotel Dieu, I saw in front the Intendance.
There was no French ship in sight only two old hulks with guns in the mouth of the St. Charles River, to protect the road to the palace gate that is, at the Intendance. It was all there before me, the investment of Quebec, for which I had prayed and waited seven long years.
John's Gate, for I had the countersign from Gabord, and, dressed as I was, I had no difficulty in passing. Outside I saw a small cavalcade arriving from Beauport way. I drew back and let it pass me, and then I saw that it was soldiers bearing the Seigneur Duvarney to the Intendance.
But come, he added, 'where do you think I have been? It was hard to answer him gaily, and yet it must be done, and so I said, 'You have probably put yourself in prison, that you should not keep your tiny boast. 'I have been in prison, he answered, 'and I was on the wrong side, with no key even locked in a chest-room of the Intendance, he explained, 'but as yet I do not know by whom, nor am I sure why.
"Your intendance is perfect; your ambulance is perfect; your camp-cookery is perfect, messieurs; and here you have even perfect beauty, too! Truly, campaigning must be pleasant work in Algeria!" Then he turned to her with compliments frank and gay, and full of a debonair grace that made her doubt he could be of Albion.
Doltaire nodded, glancing at me. "Surely he shall attend you, Mere St. George," he said, and then stepped on with Alixe, Gabord and the other soldier ahead, the two Sisters behind, and myself beside these. Going quietly through the disordered Upper Town, we came down Palace Street to the Intendance. Here Doltaire had kept his quarters despite his growing quarrel with Bigot.
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