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Updated: May 3, 2025
If Chloe was surprised at this bit of information, she succeeded admirably in disguising her feelings. Not so Harriet Penny, who sank back among the freight pieces to stare fearfully into the face of the younger woman. "Then you are Pierre Lapierre's man? You work for him?" The man nodded. "On de reevaire I'm run de scow me Vermilion! I'm tak' de reesk. Lapierre, she tak' de money."
"'Well, then, sign this paper. We constitute you guardian of the prince's cabinet. "'I am at your orders, monseigneur, replied Lapierre; and he signed. "'Now, said Dubois, 'you understand all the responsibility you have undertaken? "'Yes, monseigneur. "'And submit to it. "'I do.
He chafed with impatience to strike the blow that would crush forever the power of Lapierre, yet he found himself wholly at the mercy of Lapierre. For somewhere behind that barrier of logs was the woman he loved. He shuddered at the thought. He knew Lapierre.
Lapierre bent his gaze upon her face slowly, like one emerging from a trance. "Yes," he answered deliberately; "it is of that I wish to speak. Let us consider the obstacles in our path the matter of official interference.
Francis Delas," called upon Lapierre and offered him twenty-five million dollars spot cash for his wife's share in the Tessier inheritance. This person also claimed that he had a power of attorney from all the other heirs, with the exception of Pettit and Rozier, and asserted that he was on the point of embarking for New York in their interest. He urged Lapierre to substitute him for Moreno.
Seeing that they had concluded, Lapierre arose, and taking Chloe's hand in both of his, looked straight into her eyes. "Good-by," he said simply. "These Indians will conduct you in safety to your school." And, without waiting for a reply, turned and followed the two canoemen into the brush.
MacNair went about his business, and to Lapierre came Chenoine with his story of the girl and the plot of Vermilion, and Lapierre, forgetting MacNair for the moment, made a dash for the Slave River. For years Lapierre and MacNair had been at loggerheads. Each recognized in the other a foe of no mean ability. Each had sworn to drive the other out of the North.
When, during the course of their first conversation, she casually mentioned that she could command millions if she wanted them, his immediate interest in MacNair cooled appreciably not that MacNair was to be forgotten merely that his undoing was to be deferred for a season, while he, the Pierre Lapierre once more of student days, played an old game a game long forgot in the press of sterner life, but one at which he once excelled.
Be that as it may, had she yielded to Lapierre's plans, they would have stolen from the school that very night and proceeded to Fort Rae, to be married by the priest at the Mission. For Lapierre, fully alive to the danger of delay, had eloquently pleaded his cause.
She smiled, and Lapierre, who was watching her intently, smiled in return. "We are approaching quick water; we will cover many miles today, and tonight beside the camp-fire we will talk further." Chloe's eyes searched the scows. "Where are the two who attacked Lena? Your men captured them." Lapierre's smile hardened. "Those who deserted me for Vermilion? Oh, I dismissed them from my service."
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