You said in your letter that you had news.

You were kind to go--" "Perrot went too." "My faithful Perrot! I was about to ask of him.

I had a birch-bark letter from him, and he said he would come--Ah, here he is!" He listened.

There was a man's voice singing near by.

They could even hear the words: "'O the young seigneur! O the young seigneur! A hundred bucks in a day he slew; And the lady gave him a ribbon to wear, And a shred of gold from her golden hair O the way of a maid was the way he knew; O the young seigneur! O the young seigneur!'" "Shall we speak freely before him ?" said the priest.