It brought to him the aromatic odors of his beloved wilderness, and, for a time, he was back in the great land of the Hodenosaunee among the blue lakes and the silver streams.

He had been educated in the white man's schools, and his friendship for Robert and Willet was strong and enduring, but his heart was in the forest.

Enlightened and humane, he had nevertheless asked seriously the night before the question: "Will Lennox kill him ?" He had discovered something fetid in Quebec and to him de Mezy was a noxious animal that should be destroyed.

He wished, for an instant, that he knew the sword and that he was going to stand in Lennox's place.
Then he woke Robert and Willet, and they dressed quickly, but by the time they had finished Monsieur Berryer knocked on the door and told them breakfast was ready.

The innkeeper's manner was flurried.