EVE OF BATTLE Robert awoke the next morning, well physically, but depressed mentally.

He believed that a great battle--and a great victory for the Anglo-American army--was coming, and he would have no part in it.

The losses of Braddock's defeat and the taking of Fort William Henry by Montcalm would be repaired, once more the flag of his native land and of his ancestral land, would be triumphant, but he would be merely a spectator, even if he were as much as that.

It was a bitter reflection, and again he thought of escape.

But no plan seemed possible.