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"Madam," interrupted Law, "pardon, but Monsieur Joncaire bids us be ready. Come, help me arrange the packs for our journey. Perhaps Lieutenant de Ligny for so I think they name you, sir will pardon us, and will consent to resume his conversation later." "Assuredly," said De Ligny. "I shall wait, Monsieur."
Joncaire had gained over most of the Senecas, Piquet was drawing the Onondagas more and more to his mission, and the Dutch of Albany were alienating their best friends, the Mohawks, by encroaching on their lands.
He accepted their promises, and consented to send for the prisoners in their hands, on condition that within thirty-six days a full deputation of their principal men should come to Montreal. The Jesuit Bruyas, the Canadian Maricourt, and a French officer named Joncaire went back with them to receive the prisoners. The history of Joncaire was a noteworthy one.
I thought a moment, then: "Somewhere I heard that Captain Joncaire had a daughter. But she married another man one Louis de Contrecoeur " I hesitated, glanced again at the name scratched on the glass over the lock of hair, and shook my head. "Jean Coeur Louis de Contrecoeur. The names scarce hang together yet "
This was true; but it was equally true of the other tribes, whose chiefs had made the necessary gifts, and recovered the captive Iroquois. Joncaire and his colleagues succeeded, however, in leading a large deputation of chiefs and elders to Montreal.
Joncaire knew well enough the fickle nature of these savages, who might upon the morrow demand another council and perhaps arrive at different conclusions. Hearing there were no white prisoners in the villages farther to the west, he resolved to set forth at once upon the return with those now at hand.
My recruits increased every moment. I went to say my breviary while my Indians and the Senecas, without loss of time, assembled to hold a council with Monsieur de Joncaire." The result of the council was an entreaty to the missionary not to stop at Oswego, lest evil should befall him at the hands of the English.
"It is the child of a savage woman," said Law. Joncaire pulled aside the infant's hood. He gave no sign, and a nice indifference sat in his query: "Une belle sauvage?" "Belle sauvage!" On a great bed of state, satin draped, flanked with ancient tapestries, piled sickeningly soft with heaps of pillows, there lay a thin, withered little man old, old and very feeble.
"Monsieur looks at the shipping," said Joncaire, smiling. "Surely he would not be leaving New France, after so luckily escaping the worst of her dangers?" "Life might be the same for me over there as here," replied Law. "As for my luck, I must declare myself the most unfortunate man on earth." "Your wife, perhaps, is ill?" "Pardon, I have none." "Pardon, in turn, Monsieur but, you see the child?"
Here he found Joncaire, and here also was encamped a large band of Senecas; though, being all drunk, men, women, and children, they were in no condition to receive the Faith, or appreciate the temporal advantages that attended it.
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