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But as the cloak was thrown over her head she gave a cry. The firs, where Iberville and Gering had just plucked out their swords, were not far, and both men heard. Gering, who best knew the voice, said hurriedly: "It is Jessica!" Without a word Iberville leaped to the open, and came into it ahead of Gering. They saw the kidnappers and ran. Iberville was the first to find what Bucklaw was carrying.
"The promptings of the saints and the happy kindness of King Louis, who will send my ship here after me. I boarded the first merchantman with its nose to the sea, and landed here soon after you left for Montreal." "So? Good! See you, see you, Iberville: what of the lady Puritan's marriage with the fire-eating Englishman?" The governor smiled as he spoke, not looking at Iberville.
A deeper gloom had settled over the little colony at Biloxi, when, on December 7th, some signal-guns were heard at sea, and the grateful sound came booming over the waters, spreading joy in every breast.... It was Iberville returning with the news that, on his representations, Sauvolle had been appointed by the King governor of Louisiana; Bienville, lieutenant-governor; and Boisbriant, commander of the fort at Biloxi, with the grade of major.
The fact that France had in 1763 actually dismembered her colonial empire and that Louisiana as ceded to Spain extended only to the Iberville, was given no weight in Livingston's deductions. Having the will to believe, Jefferson and Madison became converts to Livingston's faith.
But before the trial Iberville had had solitary talk with Frontenac, in which a request was repeated and a promise renewed. Gering was condemned to die. It was perhaps the bravest moment of a brave life. "Gentlemen," he said, "I have heard your sentence, but, careless of military honour as you are, you will not dare put me to death.
When he had finished, Iberville said: "She kept the letter, you say?" Perrot nodded, and drew the ring from a pouch which he carried. "I have kept it safe," he said, and held it out. Iberville took it and turned it over in his hand, with an enigmatical smile. "I will hand it to her myself," he said, half beneath his breath. "You do not give her up, monsieur?" Iberville laughed.
Gering brought not Radisson here, and I should beware that man. A traitor is ever a traitor. He is French, too, and as a good Englishman you should hate all Frenchmen, should you not?" "Merciless witch! Where got you that wit? If I must, I kneel;" and he groaned in mock despair. "And if Monsieur Iberville should come knocking at our door you would have me welcome him lovingly?"
Iberville and Gering sat on with the tobacco and the wine. The older men had joined the ladies, the governor having politely asked them to do so when they chose. The other occupant of the room was Morris, who still stood stolidly behind his master's chair. For a time he heard the talk of the two young men as in a kind of dream.
He lifted his hand and made the sign of the cross towards that spot on the horizon whither Iberville had gone. "He will be a great man some day," he added to himself "a great man. There will be empires here, and when histories are written Pierre's shall be a name beside Frontenac's and La Salle's." All the human affection of the good abbe's life centred upon Iberville.
"And in your mind another leaven worked," ventured the priest. "Another leaven, as you say," responded Iberville. "So, for your story, abbe." "Of the first journey there is nothing more to tell, save that the English governor said you were as brave a gentleman as ever played ambassador which was, you remember, much in Count Frontenac's vein." Iberville nodded and smiled.
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