It seems queer that you and he should be here in the mountain wilderness so far north of your lines, in the very height of a fierce winter." "It's just as queer that you should be here." "Perhaps so, from your point of view, though it's lucky that I should have been present with these dark warriors of mine when you were taken.

They suffered heavily in the battle by Andiatarocte, and but for me they might now be using you as fuel.

Don't wince, you know their ways and I only tell a fact.

In truth, I can't make you any promise in regard to your ultimate fate, but, at present, I need you alive more than I need you dead." "You won't get any military information out of me." "I don't know.

We shall wait and see." "Do you know the Chevalier de St.Luc ?" "Of course.