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Her father, leaving her with us, went in quest of her sister. While she was relating her adventures, to which nobody listened more attentively than Sir Clement, we saw Mr. Brown enter the room. "O, la!" cried Miss Polly, "let me hide myself, and don't tell him I'm come." She then placed herself behind Madame Duval, in such a manner that she could not be seen.
Hal, from his place of concealment, saw them emerge and followed them. A short distance from the den he came up with them. Jean, as well as Chester, was delighted to see him. "Why," said Jean, "can't we all work together and make sure that the plot does not fail?" "An excellent idea," said Chester. He spoke to Hal in a whisper: "Watch the house and follow Duval when he comes out."
"Why," he said, "I have seen Miss Lise with a fellow named Duval Howard Duval when he's been in town. He travels for a Boston shoe house, Humphrey and Gillmount." "I'm afraid Lise has gone away with him," said Janet. "I thought you might be able to find out something about him, and whether any one had seen them. She left home yesterday morning." For an instant Mr.
Dinner was hardly removed, when a letter was delivered to Madam Duval. The moment she had read it, she hastily demanded from whom it came. "A country boy brought it," answered the servant," but he would not wait." "Run after him this instant!" cried she, "and be sure you bring him back. Mon Dieu! quelle aventure! que feraije?" "What's the matter? what's the matter?" said the Captain.
When we had finished, he put his hand into his pocket and said, "Now, my boy, I will also present you with something." I thought he meant to give me one of his utterly wretched cigars; but no it was a paper, and, on handing it over to me, Duval said, "It is your discharge, my boy; you are free." "My discharge?" I asked, offended, "and why, pray? Have I not done more than my duty?
"The mob attacking the Intendant! You do not say so! Captain Duval, turn out the whole guard at once, and let Colonel St. Remy take the command and clear the way for the Intendant, and also clear the streets of all disturbers." A number of officers sprang to their feet. "Keep seated, gentlemen! We must not break up the Council," said the Governor.
Sir Clement, after a general bow, singling out Madame Duval, said with his usual easiness, "I have done myself the honour of waiting on you, Madame, to enquire if you have any commands to Howard Grove, whither I am going to-morrow morning."
Two or three days after, a lady, also young and handsome, arrived at the hotel, and inquired for Madame Duval. She was greatly shocked at hearing of her decease.
Duval was 'strangled and hung at Quebec, and his head was put on the end of a pike, to be set in the most conspicuous place on our fort, that he might serve as an example to those who remained, leading them to deport themselves correctly in future, in the discharge of their duty; and that the Spaniards and Basques, of whom there were large numbers in the country, might not glory in the event.
Good luck to you, Pierre Duval. So I went back to the farm as fast as I could go." He was silent for a few moments, letting his thoughts wander through the pleasant paths of that little garden of repose. His eyes were dreaming, his lips almost smiled. "It was sweet at 'L'Alouette, very sweet, Father.
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