34/42 Two days in Quebec and already you have fought two duels, one of them ending fatally." "My lord," said Willet, gravely, "they were not of our seeking." "That also, I hear. They tell me, too, Mr.Willet, that you are an incomparable swordsman, and it must be true, or you would not have been able to defeat Boucher. You will not be held here because of his death. It seems that the Intendant, Monsieur Bigot himself, does not wish to carry it further. |