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Updated: June 14, 2025
"Spose I got half pound powder in old horn, box caps mos' full, an' tree poun' goose shot," said Peter. "We have, then, somewhere between one hundred and fifty and two hundred rounds of ammunition, and provisions for a week, allowing ourselves no addition to the present stock. Count the decoys, Regnie, while I look up our tools, &c."
La Regnie, who scents out crime everywhere, would not have been at all likely to believe me at once, when I accused the good, respectable, exemplary Cardillac of being an habitual murderer. The sword of Justice would, most probably, have turned its point against me." "Impossible," said Mademoiselle Scuderi. "Your rank your position "
"Vanished! through the wall! Are you out of your senses?" La Regnie cried, stepping three steps backwards, and striking his hands together. "Call me as great a madman as you please, Monsieur," said Desgrais, rubbing his forehead like one tortured by evil thoughts. "Call me a madman, or a silly spirit-seer; but what I have told you is the literal truth.
"Regnie, don't for your life let the others know that I have doubt of our safety; and keep up poor Waring's spirits if you can." Cheerfully and firmly the answer came back in good Parisian, "I will not fail you. I have no fear now, and the life of the ice is nothing new to me.
La Salle had listened to the strange story with amazement, which increased as it progressed. "You tell me, Regnie, though, only of good deeds and faithful services rendered by the dead. You say that he loved your father, and served him faithfully as long as he lived." Regnar took up the word in bitter wrath, strangely mingled with regret. "As long as he lived yes!
As they sat eating their rude meal, Regnar broke the silence; for it may well be believed that no great hilarity pervaded the little party. "As we not know how long we may be adrift, I think we better take 'count stock. See how much wood, provisions, powder, shot, everyting." "You are right, Regnie; we will set to work at once. I can tell how much food we have now.
And La Salle almost doubted his own sanity as he followed the old Regnie of his Labrador voyage down the side of the mound, where a moment ago an unsuspected, hidden fire had revealed itself. Just as they were about to enter the little outer enclosure, La Salle laid his hand on the arm of his companion.
I gathered mine up. He was not more than fifteen paces ahead of me." "You got hold of him! your men came up!" cried La Regnie, with flashing eyes, grasping Desgrais by the arm as if he were the fleeing murderer himself. "Fifteen paces ahead of me," said Desgrais, in a hollow voice, and drawing his breath hard, "this fellow, before my eyes, dodged to one side, and vanished through the wall."
When at length Mademoiselle Scuderi, quite exhausted and wiping the tears from her cheeks, was silent, La Regnie began, saying: "It is quite characteristic of your excellent heart, Mademoiselle, that, moved by the tears of a young girl who is in love, you should credit all she says; nay, be incapable of grasping the idea of a fearful crime such as this.
"We hear many strange noise. I not know, George not know, Regnie not know, none of us know. There it come again. What you call that?" La Salle listened a moment, went to the door, and then beckoned to his companions to follow. The rain fell heavily, but the wind came warm and gently from the balmy south, and no rude blast shrieked and sighed amid the ice-peaks.
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