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Updated: May 12, 2025
And yet it had been given only in the spirit of enlightenment. Behind, John Ivrey gathered up the men idling about the fire and talking with the men of the post, where question and answer had begun to stir uneasiness. In a ragged, uneven line they strung out, fading into the darkness, and presently from down the river some forty rods there rose up the columns of their fires.
The young man's face was fired with that spirit which ever lay so near the surface and he looked at his whilom host with a mighty hauteur. "I thank you for your kindness, M'sieu, but I must decline it further. Come, Ivrey," and turning he picked up his wide hat, bowed first to McElroy and then to Ridgar, and strode toward the outer door.
What is the word of Anderson who presides there? A fine fellow, I met him once at Churchill." "York Factory? God's Lake?" De Courtenay lowered his pipe and looked through the smoke. "Nay," he said, "I know nothing of those places, M'sieu." He turned to young Ivrey. "It might be that these locations answer to different names. Heard you aught from the guides of these two posts?"
The stranger and himself, with young Ivrey and Ridgar should be served in the little room off to the west where were the small table, the chairs, and the row of books. Not often did Fort de Seviere have so illustrious a guest as must be this young adventurer. "Merci, my friend, what extravagance is this! The savour of that pot does fairly turn my head!"
Leaving his company to beach and store for the night the canoes with their loads of merchandise, under the direction of his aide or lieutenant whom he introduced to the factor as John Ivrey, a young man of fine presence, Alfred de Courtenay walked beside McElroy up the gentle slope of the river bank, entered the great eastern gate of the post, not without an appreciative glance at its massive strength and at the well-nigh impregnable thickness of the stockade, the well-placed surveillance of the towering bastions, and thus up the way between the cabins to the door of the factory, open and inviting.
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