"If you don't wish the Fur Company to discover you, don't fire guns!"
"Three," says Gillam.
"That is to keep 'em from connecting with those inlanders," whispered Godefroy, who knew the plays of his master's game better than I. "We can beat 'em single; but if Ben joins the inlanders and the Fur Company against us——"
Godefroy completed his prophecy with an ominous shake of the head.
"My men shall not know you are here," M. Radisson was promising.
"One," counts Gillam.
"I'll join with you against the English ships!"
Young Gillam laughed derisively.
"My father commands the Hudson's Bay ship," says he.
"Egad, yes!" retorts M. Radisson nonchalantly, "but your father doesn't command the governor of the Fur Company, who sailed out in his ship."