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He signaled the Frenchmen, lowered a boat, and sent his lieutenant aboard the flagship with credentials and a letter signifying his readiness to engage in any enterprise. From Admiral Champmeslin, in command of the squadron, he learned that Bienville and Serigny, combined with the Choctaws, had invested Pensacola by land, and on the morrow a simultaneous attack by land and sea would be made.
He took the words from my lips. His countenance first flushed, then became hard and fixed, compelling me for the time into silence. "Monsieur de Serigny, I perhaps can speak you better our good Captain's mind. He mistrusts me ." "You?" burst out Serigny greatly surprised. "Why you have ever been our staunch and loyal friend.
I pray you direct me to the apartments of M. de Serigny, I would have speech with him." He was a manly young lad, of soldierly bearing, too, despite his effeminate dress; he turned and himself guided me through the many intricate halls and passages until we reached a door which he pointed out as Serigny's, where, with polite speeches, he left me alone.
Then he gravely inclined his head to signify the interview was done. As soon as I decently could I left the royal presence and repaired at once to Serigny. I found him still in his apartments waiting me with every appearance of intense impatience. Almost as I rapped he had opened the door himself. The valet had been dismissed. My face for I was yet flushed with excitement told of our victory.
We can lose them; tell Serigny they were never found; tell him Yvard carried them off; tell him he never had them. We can fix a tale." "It would be a long story, and a liar must needs have a good memory." I was playing for time, time to think, time to get away. "But I will go with you to Serigny," he insisted, "tell the lie and make him to believe.
"Await me here; I will pay your gains for the day if you will but do me a slight service." "Aye, aye, sir," he responded, touching his surf-stained cap. I returned briefly from the inn bearing a note for M. de Serigny. Therein I explained that a most important matter had transpired to detain me until another vessel sailed, some few days at most.
I remembered Bienville's words "We know not who to trust," and being ignorant of what orders Serigny meant to give, or how much information they would convey to Jerome, deemed it best to let all the occurrences of the day come out.
Verily, this was a pleasant adventure for me to contemplate, taking alive such a desperado, who handled his sword like a hell-born imp. "I would not expose you to this," continued Serigny, "but for the stern necessity that those papers should reach me unopened. They are to be delivered to you, and I hold you responsible. You understand?" I bowed my acquiescence.
Serigny held me responsible, and it would perhaps be the part of wisdom to act independently of Jerome, report fully to Serigny, and if it were then his wish that the investigation concerning Yvard and Madame du Maine be pressed to further discoveries, nothing would be easier than to return to Paris almost before Jerome could miss me.
I thought it strange that they chose to go separately, and that neither had told me of his expected journey. However that might be, as it suited my purpose well to be alone, I disturbed not myself with pondering over it. Yet I wondered somewhat. The King and Court were at Versailles; so judging to find Serigny there I turned aside from my first intention and proceeded thither.
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