A week later the marriage was solemnized; the squatter and his family were present. And a month previously, Diana had married James. Still, when the "yes" was uttered, she could not suppress a sigh.
"You see, Ivon, that you are never killed by the Indians—and here is a proof of it," Bright-eye said to the Breton, on leaving the chapel.
"I am beginning to believe it," the latter made answer, "but no matter, my friend, I shall never get accustomed to this frightful country; it makes me so afraid."
"The old humbug!" the Canadian muttered; "he will never alter."
And now, to satisfy certain curious readers who like to know everything, we will add the following in the shape of a postscript.
A few months after the 9th Thermidor, several members of the Convention, in spite of the part they played on that day, were not the less transported to French Guyana. Two of them—Collot D'Herbois and Billaud Varenne—succeeded in escaping from Sinnamori, and buried themselves in the deserts, where they endured horrible sufferings. Collot D'Herbois succumbed, and we have told his comrade's fate.