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Updated: June 10, 2025
"We shall meet again, monsieur," said Iberville at last; "at least, I hope so." "I shall be glad," answered Gering mechanically. "But 'tis like I shall come to you before you come to me," added Iberville, with meaning. Jessica was standing not far away, and Gering did not instantly reply. In the pause, Iberville said: "Au revoir! A la bonne heure!" and walked away.
Gering had crowded home with flagrant emphasis the fact that, while Radisson was a traitor and a scoundrel, which Iberville himself had admitted with an ironical frankness, he was also a Frenchman.
You were thrown into prison, were tried and condemned to death. There remained two things: that you should be left to hang, or an escape that we should meet here and now." "You chose the better way, monsieur." "I treat you with consideration, I hope, monsieur." Gering waved his hand in acknowledgment, and said: "What weapons do you choose?" Iberville quietly laid on the table a number of swords.
Iberville blew out the candle. There was only the light of the fire, with the gleam of the slow-coming dawn. Once again, even as years before in the little house at Montreal, De Casson played now with a martial air. At last he struck the chords of a song which had been a favourite with the Carignan-Salieres regiment.
Again the priest paused, and again Iberville urged him. "I asked if she had no token. There was a flame in her eye, and she begged me to excuse her. When she came back she handed me a little packet. 'Give it to Monsieur Iberville, she said, 'for it is his. He lent it to me years ago. No doubt he has forgotten."
You will take it, Perrot he said, holding up the letter. Perrot reached out for it. "And there is something more." Iberville drew from his finger a costly ring. It had come from the hand of a Spanish noble, whose place he had taken in Spain years before. He had prevented his men from despoiling the castle, and had been bidden to take what he would, and had chosen only this.
Iberville was the first to step on deck, and he was followed by Perrot and De Casson, who had, against Iberville's will, insisted on coming. Five others came after. Already they could hear the other party at the gate of the fort, and the cries of the besiegers, now in the fort yard, came clearly to them.
"I will show you one. Some day when you think you tread on a wisp of straw, it will be a snake with the deadly tooth. You have made an outlaw take care! When the outlaw tires of the game, he winds it up quick. And some one pays for the candles and the cards." Iberville walked up to him. "Radisson," he said in a voice well controlled, "you have always been an outlaw.
"It must have dropped off," said Jessica, blushing. "But it does not matter." Iberville blushed too, but a smile also flitted across his lips. "If you will but put your hand into my waistcoat here," he said to her, "you will find it." Timidly she did as she was bid, drew forth the slipper, and put it on.
It was strange to hear in that lonely waste, a handful of men, bent on a deadly task, singing a low chant of penitence a Kyrie eleison. Afterwards came the benediction upon this buccaneering expedition, behind which was one man's personal enmity, a merchant company's cupidity, and a great nation's lust of conquest! Iberville stole across the shore and up the hill with his handful of men.
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