“Bar the doors when you see any one approaching and keep watch on all sides every day.”
“Yes, m’sieur.”
Jacques jammed his candle-end into a crack of the rock floor, undid the fastenings, and with a jerk let the moonlight in on their semi-darkness.
They went out to the palisade gate, the Indians dragged the boat carefully to its launching, and Jacques stored in it Dollard’s provisions.
“Good-bye, my man,” said Dollard.
“M’sieur,” said Jacques, “I have always obeyed you. There is but one thing in my heart against you, and I will cleanse myself of that now.”
“Quickly, then.” The young man had one foot in the boat.
“It is the same old hard spot. Thou wouldst rule me out of this expedition. A man that loves thee as I love thee!”
“Jacques, if I had reasons before on Renée’s account, what reasons have I not now?”