"By Jove! in seeming no longer to remember that, in the country where we now are, every weapon is good to get rid of an enemy."
"Eh! I know that as well as you, my friend; I know, too, that the most dangerous weapon is that which is concealed."
"That is to say, treachery."
The Canadian started. "Do you fear treachery, then?" he asked.
"What else can I fear?"
"That is true," the hunter said, with a drooping head; "but," he added, a moment after, "what is to be done?"
"That is the very thing that embarrasses me. Still I cannot remain much longer in this state; the uncertainty is killing me; at all risks I must know what has happened."
"But in what way?"
"I know not, Heaven will inspire me."
"Still, you have an idea?"