“Bless thee, my master Adam Daulac!”
“Bless thee, my Jacques!”
The boat shot off, and Jacques went in and fastened the gate and the door.
XI.
MADEMOISELLE DE GRANVILLE’S BROTHER.
SOON after 1 o’clock Claire awoke and sat upright in her dim room. Her alarm at the absence of Dollard was swallowed instantly by greater alarm at the presence of some one else.
This small chamber, like the saloon, was lighted by one square window, and male housekeeping at St. Bernard, combined with the quality of glass manufactured for colonial use at that date, veiled generous moonlight which would have thrown up sharply every object in the severe place.