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Hoarse whisperings and the click of the cocking of guns from below told that the Iroquois were mustering for a rush. "Put the lantern by the door," said Du Lhut, "so that it may throw the light upon the stair. There is only room for three to fire, but you can all load and pass the guns. Monsieur Green, will you kneel with me, and you, Jean Duval?
He was a gentleman by birth and a soldier by early training. In many ways he resembled La Salle, for both stood high above the common coureurs de bois in station, as in talent. Du Lhut has to his credit no single exploit which equals La Salle's descent of the Mississippi, but in native sagacity he was the superior.
"We can finish the game later. Remember that the deal lies with you. Let us see what it all means." De Catinat had already rushed to the window. Du Lhut, young Achille de la Noue, and eight of the covering party were running with their heads bent towards the stockade, the door of which had been opened to admit them.
There, taken by the Sioux, they were in humiliating and even perilous captivity till rescued by the aid of Du Lhut. We almost wish that the rumor that Hennepin had been hung by his own waist-cord had been true, if only we could have had his first book without the second.
'He was, says Vaudreuil, 'a very honest man. In these words will be found an indirect commendation of Frontenac, who discovered Du Lhut, supported him through bitter opposition, and placed him where his talents and energy could be used for the good of his country.
"I have only been in the woods with Greysolon du Lhut, who knows everything." "Then he told thee the name of this Italian with the copper hand?" "Assuredly. This Italian with the copper hand is Sieur Greysolon du Lhut's cousin, and his name is Henri de Tonty." "I will say this for Monsieur Henri de Tonty: a better made man never stepped on the strand at St. Ignace."
Du Lhut alone, of all those present, was in the father's secret. He had perpetrated a pious fraud, justified by the results as well as by his peril. A burning-glass had been fastened to the crucifix, and with that he had destroyed the idol. Trading thus on native ignorance a Frenchman named Lyons at another time impressed the Indians at Dubuque and gained his will by setting a creek on fire.
Though La Motte Cadillac was the founder of a permanent settlement on the west shore of Detroit River, it is said that Greysolon du Lhut set up the first palisades there. About a hundred houses stood crowded together within the wooden wall of these tall log pickets, which were twenty-five feet high. The houses were roofed with bark or thatched with straw.
Du Lhut lit his pipe from a tinder paper. "The Iroquois are on this side," said he. "They crossed to the south of us." "And you never told us. How do you know that they crossed, and why did you not tell us?" "I did not know until I saw the fires over yonder." "And how did they tell you?" "Tut, an Indian papoose could have told," said Du Lhut impatiently.
"They have some canoes down there," said Du Lhut. "But they must pass us!" cried the Seigneur of Sainte Marie. "Get down to the cannon and see if you cannot stop them." They had hardly reached the guns when two large canoes filled with warriors shot out from among the reeds below the fort, and steering out into mid-stream began to paddle furiously after the fugitives.
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