'You are,' said he, 'a friend of Monsieur Iberville.

You shall know one who keeps him in remembrance.' Then he let the lady enter.

She had heard that I was there, having seen Perrot first." Here Perrot, with a chuckle, broke in: "I chanced that way, and I had a wish to see what was for seeing; for here was our good abbe alone among the wolves, and there were Radisson and the immortal Bucklaw, of whom there was news." De Casson still continued: "When I was presented she took my hand and said: 'Monsieur l'Abbe, I am glad to meet a friend--an old friend--of Monsieur Iberville.

I hear that he has been in France and elsewhere.'" Here the abbe paused, smiling as if in retrospect, and kept looking into the fire and turning about in his hand his cassock-cord.
Iberville had sat very still, his face ruled to quietness; only his eyes showing the great interest he felt.

He waited, and presently said: "Yes, and then ?" The abbe withdrew his eyes from the fire and turned them upon Iberville.
"And then," he said, "the governor left the room.