"And will you believe my words?"
The officer fixed his eyes on the quaint energetic face of the old hermit and answered emphatically:
"I will."
"And you will report my words to your commander?"
"Yes."
"Then, listen to me. The day before yesterday, after landing on the north shore, you deployed your forces on the Plains of Abraham?"
Batoche went into this and the following other particulars, which he had learned from Barbin, in order to have them confirmed by the American officers, so that there be no mistake about the conclusion which he drew from them.
"We did," was the reply.
"And you sent forward a flag of truce?"
"Yes."