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Wilson and Brilliers stand at the canoe, and, M'sieus, keep hand at prow ready for instant action. We know not what may happen. I, who am most concerned, go first. You, Marc Dupre, go with me." Her voice dropped as it ever did of late when she spoke to this good friend. "And now we wait only for full darkness." "You must go, Ma'amselle?" said Alloybeau miserably.
"Cannot another make the first scouting? Send me." "And me!" Frith pushed softly forward. "At the last, Ma'amselle, we are old women. We cannot let you go." "Cannot?" said Maren sharply. "Do Mr. Mowbray's men so soon forget his orders? I am good as a man, M'sieus. See!" She held up her right arm, with the fringed sleeve falling loose. The muscle sprang up magnificently.
"Mon Dieu, I tell you his feet are as big as my hand, and he is as black as a raven's wing with the sun on it!" he exclaimed in the company's store at Lac Bain. "A fox? Non! He is half as big as a bear. A wolf oui! And black as the devil, m'sieus." McTaggart was one of those who heard. He was putting his signature in ink to a letter he had written to the company when Lerue's words came to him.
At last he caught: "OK. Been getting you. Go on." "Drifting fast. West by south. Before morning will be in surf." Again Bowen waited, and then the answer came: "What do you want me to do?" "Do something to save us." "Why don't you do something to save yourself?" "Sails blown away. Life-boat gone." "Haven't you got a chart of Paris?" "Chart of what?" "Paris? With a few M'sieus on it? Good night."
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