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"Faith, Madame, if you base your hopes there on rescue you'll scarce meet with great result. De Tonty is all bark. Mon Dieu! I went in to hold him to account for his insult, and the fellow met us with such gracious speech, that the four of us drank together like old comrades. The others are there yet, but I had a proposition to make you so I left them." "A proposition, Monsieur?"
The other document was the sworn affidavit of Jules Beaubaou, a clerk of records, that he had seen and read a paper purporting to be a restoration from the King to the heirs of Captain la Chesnayne. It was signed and sealed. I looked up at the faces surrounding me; startled and frightened at this witness from the dead. "They are papers belonging to Chevet?" asked De Tonty. "Yes, Monsieur see.
Ah, but you know the beast, for you journeyed west in his company. Sacre! the man charged you with murder, and I gave him the lie to his teeth. Not two hours ago we had our swords out, but now you can answer for yourself." De Artigny hesitated, his eyes meeting mine. "I fear, Monsieur de Tonty," he said finally, "the answer may not be so easily made.
He threw out La Durantaye, with Tonty and Du Luth, the coureurs de bois, you know, to feel the way. La Durantaye had the mission Indians, from Sault St. Louis and the Montreal Mountain, on his left, and the Ottawas and Mackinac tribes on his right." "How did the Ottawas behave?" "Wretchedly. They ran at the first fire. I'll come to that. The others weren't so bad, but there was no holding them.
When La Salle was again able to venture into the west he found the villages of the Illinois only blackened heaps of ruins sure evidence of the Iroquois having been on the warpath. During the winter of 1681 he remained at a post he had built on the banks of the St. Joseph in the Miami country, and heard no news of his faithful Tonty.
There he turned back, leaving a letter tied to a tree, on the chance of its sometime falling into the hands of Tonty. There was nothing to do but to take his men and goods from among the rocks near the destroyed town and return to Fort Miamis, on the St. Joseph, which some of his followers had rebuilt. The winter was upon them. La Salle never sat and brooded over trouble. He was a man of action.
Once more he set about gathering supplies, and made ready to return to Fort Heart-break. But worse was yet to come. La Salle was about to start when he received a letter from Tonty. From this he learned that soon after he had left nearly all his men had mutinied. They had rifled the stores and demolished the fort; then, throwing into the river everything they could not carry, had made off.
But many things, such as sails and rigging, which were necessary for the ship, the wilderness could not supply. And, seeing no other way, La Salle resolved to go back to Fort Frontenac to get them, leaving Tonty meanwhile to look after the building of the ship. It was March when La Salle set out on his tremendous walk of a thousand miles.
Once I leave you safe beyond the Iroquois, 'tis my part to climb this rope again. Some task that," cheerfully, "yet De Tonty deems it best that no evidence connect us with this escape. What make you the hour?" "Between one and two." "Which will give me time before daydawn; so here, I chance it." He swung himself over the edge, and slipped silently down into the black mystery.
He will see justice done, and give you both safe convoy to Fort St. Louis, where De Tonty knows how to protect his officers. Faith! I would like to see Francois Cassion try to browbeat that one armed Italian 'twould be one time he would meet his match." De Artigny laughed. "Ay, you are right there, my friend. I have felt the iron-hook, and witnessed how he wins his way with white and red.
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