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Updated: June 26, 2025
They laid their plans and, in the dead of the night, murdered him, La Salle's servant Saget, and his faithful Indian, Nika. Now they had to choose between killing La Salle and being killed by him, as soon as he should learn the facts. They laid an ambush for him, and when he came in the morning to look after the missing men, they shot him dead.
The voice of the latter was full of purity and strength, and Dino kept on signalling to Nika over and over again, saying in a low voice: "Do you hear it? Do you see it? Do you notice it at last?" It was quite evident that two had not been of the same opinion about Cornelli till that day. So they all had a merry feast.
Nika, needing no advice, had long ago decided what to do. Every day as soon as the meals were over, she silently disappeared. Agnes and Cornelli bolted the door of the music room and let mysterious songs issue from behind it. Only Dino was still undecided about his task.
At last Cornelli's eyes closed, but she kept on seeing the flowers and seemed to be looking up admiringly at Nika, who stood beside her, tall and beautiful. Cornelli thought: If she would only say one pleasant word to me. Then Nika turned around to her and said: "You are an awkward, block-headed Cornelli!" All this Cornelli saw and heard in her dream.
An outburst of tears choked all further words. During her sister's speech Nika had been quietly drawing, but she was holding her head lower and lower over her work without once looking up. She continued her studies, but her eyes seemed to be filling. Pushing her work away, she held her handkerchief before her face.
"Your mother has done it," Cornelli explained confusedly, for she was quite overcome at all these manifestations of joy. Nika also glanced up at her. "You are a different child, Cornelli, and I do not see how you could ever have gotten the way you were." These words were said in such a charming manner that a deep sensation of well-being filled Cornelli.
Four men, for another had joined them, greatly enraged, sullenly abandoned their work, and retiring a short distance agreed to avenge themselves by killing Moranget, and also by killing Nika and another man who was the valet of La Salle. Both of these men were friends and supporters of Moranget. They waited till night. All took their supper together. It was the night of the 17th of March.
"Why should you be afraid?" asked the mother. "You know us all so well now." "Oh, because I am not like Agnes and Nika. I can't do anything they do and I don't look the way they do," said Cornelli. With these words she frowned again in the old way, so that one could see it through the thick fringes of hair that covered her forehead. The mother said no more and went out.
But the real truth is she was too absorbed in considering Sonya's history and fate to be aware of anything else. She was therefore more annoyed than frightened when a figure appeared before her at the crossing of the road by the Three Pines. The voice that straightway called out to them held a quality of command that made Nika drop at once on his knees.
All were of one mind except the pilot, Teissier, who neither aided nor opposed the plot. Night came; the woods grew dark; the evening meal was finished, and the evening pipes were smoked. The order of the guard was arranged; and, doubtless by design, the first hour of the night was assigned to Moranget, the second to Saget, and the third to Nika.
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