An unknown kinship with Quebec, either in blood or imagination, was calling.

He wondered if he would see St.Luc there, but on reflection he decided that it was impossible.

The mission of the chevalier to the Hodenosaunee would require a long absence.

He might arrive in the vale of Onondaga and have to wait many days before the fifty sachems should decide to meet in council and hear him.
But Robert believed that if St.Luc should appear before the fifty he would prove to be eloquent, and he would neglect no artifice of word and manner to make the Hodenosaunee think the French power at Quebec invincible.

He would describe the great deeds of the French officers and soldiers.