The man's blue eyes, even when he used the easy manner of the high-bred Frenchman, were questing and resolute.

But the youth still found it easier than he had thought to meet him in like fashion.

Now he replied to frankness with frankness.
"Ours isn't and shouldn't be a hostile meeting in the forest, Chevalier de St.Luc," he said.

"To you and your good friends I offer my greetings.

As for myself, I am Robert Lennox, with two homes, one in Albany, and the other in the wilderness, wherever I choose to make it." He paused a moment, because he felt the gaze of St.Luc upon him, very intent and penetrating, but in an instant he resumed: "I came here with two friends whom you shall see if you stay with me long enough.