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Anderson arrived, found Ericson not so much worse as he had expected, comforted Robert, and told him he must go to bed. 'But I cannot leave Mr. Ericson, said Robert. 'Let your friend what's his odd name? watch him during the day. 'Shargar, you mean, sir. But that's his nickname. His rale name they say his mither says, is George Moray wi' an o an' no a u-r.
"Thank your haner; is it whorid toarst the house abow, sir? I wouldn't be standin' up, sir, wit you about a thrifle; an you'll have her, sir, fwhor any thing you plase beyant a pound, yer haner; an' 'tis throwin' her away it is: but one can't be hard wit a rale gintleman any way." "You only annoy me, man; besides I don't want the pig; you lose time; I don't want to buy it, I repeat to you."
The two soldiers, whose entrance had interrupted our talk, remained at the bar drinking, until after I had completed my toilet; and were still there listening to a story Rale was telling, when the slatternly white woman announced that supper was ready to serve.
His eyes swept the room, but the hat concealed my face, and he only recognized Tim. He paused long enough to bend above the upturned features of the unconscious deputy, not unpleased, evidently, to discover him in that condition. "The damned old fool," he muttered, perhaps not aware that he spoke aloud. "Rale has got him fixed, all right."
'Twas the sword hangin' on the tentpole changed my will. "Can't I help, Sorr?" sez I; "'tis a strong man's job they've given you, an' you'll be wantin' help by sundown." He was a bhoy wid bowils, that child, an' a rale gintleman. "Sit down," sez he. "Not before my orf'cer," sez I; an' I tould him fwhat my service was. "I've heard av you," sez he. "You tuk the town av Lungtungpen nakid."
The successive French Governors of Canada at Quebec were, however, alert; and their policy was to incite the Abenaki Indians on the New England frontier to harass the English settlements, and to keep the Acadians an active factor in the support of French plans. The nature of French intrigue is best seen in the career of Sebastien Rale. He was a highly educated Jesuit priest.
"Ted, it's rale cruel o' thee to play an innicent trustin' lass sich a trick." "I reckon Margaret Hep. can take care of herself," put in Mrs. Jack. "Hoo can keep her e'en oppen as weel's onybody. I don't know but what it 'ull be Ted as 'ull ha' to pay for th' nine-gallon cask. Ye'd best be savin' up your brass, Ted, for we wunnot give no credit for 't." With this professional sally she retired.
"The poor lad, but it makes me heart ache to see him so low-like, setting so quiet in the house, and him thinking, thinking all the blessed while, and never a word out o' his mouth to complain. He's a rale good lad, and it's sorry I am that he should take on so bad, and all for the sake o' a pair o' bright eyes!
I overheard enough between him and Rale to suspect it, at least, and she is even now under the influence of some drug. She hasn't spoken, nor does she seem to know what is going on about her. They strapped her into the saddle." "The hell they did."
Robert could not help listening to one man a big, raw, loosely-built fellow, who stood in the midst of a group of women laying off his idea of a rescue. "I'm rale glad to be out of it," he said, "for Jean's sake, an' the bairns; but for a' that I'd gang doon again an' try an' get them oot if there was ony chance o' doin' it."
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