THE HONORS OF WAR Gaspard Roussillon was thoroughly acquainted with savage warfare, and he knew all the pacific means so successfully and so long used by French missionaries and traders to control savage character; but the emergency now upon him was startling.

It confused him.

The fact that he had taken a solemn oath of allegiance to the American government could have been pushed aside lightly enough upon pressing occasion, but he knew that certain confidential agents left in Vincennes by Governor Abbott had, upon the arrival of Helm, gone to Detroit, and of course they had carried thither a full report of all that happened in the church of St.Xavier, when Father Gibault called the people together, and at the fort, when the British flag was hauled down and la banniere d'Alice Roussillon run up in its place.

His expansive imagination did full credit to itself in exaggerating the importance of his part in handing the post over to the rebels.

And what would Hamilton think of this?
Would he consider it treason?
The question certainly bore a tragic suggestion.
M.Roussillon lacked everything of being a coward, and treachery had no rightful place in his nature.