He will lie many times against us, and it is likely that the Frenchmen, de Courcelles and Jumonville, will come also and tell that they met us in the woods, although they said smooth words to us when we left them." "And we don't know what kind of a net they'll try to weave around us," said Willet.

"I say again I wish we'd delivered our letters and were out of Quebec." But Robert could not agree with the hunter and Tayoga.

He was still glad of the lucky chance that had taken away the Governor General.

There was also a certain keen delight in speculating what their enemies would do next.

Conscious of right and strength he believed they could foil all attempts upon them, and while the question was still fresh in his mind Father Philibert Drouillard came in.