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"It is that tower to the left the second one." "Is the prisoner at fifteen francs there?" "Yes." "Since when?" "Seven or eight years, nearly." "What do you mean by nearly? Do you not know the dates more precisely?" "It was not in my time, M. d'Herblay." "But I should have thought that Louviere or Tremblay would have told you."
"My name is Monsieur de la Louvière, Gendarme of the Guard," he said. "I come on the part of the Chevalier de Bailleul respecting the matter of Monsieur LeCour." "Be seated, sir," replied the Marquis with interest, indicating a chair near his writing-desk, at which he himself sat down. "Is this Lecour known to yourself?" "I am a friend of his," replied M. de la Louvière. "Where is he now?"
"On account of the appointment which he, or rather we, purchased from Louviere and Tremblay." "I have a very vague recollection of the matter." "That is likely enough, for you have so many affairs to attend to. However, I do not believe you have any affair in the world of greater importance than this one." "Tell me, then, why we purchased this appointment."
"Yes, yes," replied the governor, hesitating; "I think I do remember." "It was when you came to the palace to see me; you told me some story or other about your accounts with M. de Louviere and M. de Tremblay." "Oh, yes! perfectly." "And about M. d'Herblay's kindness towards you."
"Quite right, and Tremblay was not a man to let you have the post for nothing." "Nor Louviere either: the result was, that I gave seventy-five thousand francs to Tremblay as his share." "Very agreeable that! and to Louviere?" "The very same." "Money down?" "No: that would have been impossible.
Youth has its suspicions, its fits of anger, its prejudices, as old age has its hatreds, its precautions, and its fears. Have you paid your three years' profits to Louviere and Tremblay?" "Most certainly I have." "So that you have nothing more to give them than the fifty thousand francs I have brought with me?" "Nothing." "Have you not saved anything, then?"
M. d'Herblay spoke on my behalf to Louviere and Tremblay they objected; I wished to have the appointment very much, for I knew what it could be made to produce; in my distress I confided in M. d'Herblay, and he offered to become my surety for the different payments." "You astound me! Aramis became your surety?"
While La Vérendrye had been occupied in building Fort La Reine, one of his men, Louvière, had been sent to the mouth of the Assiniboine to put up a small post for the Crees. He found a suitable place on the south bank of the Assiniboine, near the point where it enters the Red, and here he built his trading post and named it Fort Rouge.
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