I have asked you nothing of your mission in Quebec, Mr.Willet, but I hope that I will see you again before you return." "I hope so too," said the hunter sincerely.
The _Frontenac_ now drew in to a wharf between the Royal Battery and the Dauphin's Battery, and Robert was still all eyes for the picturesque sights that awaited him in the greatest French town of the New World.

De Galisonniere was hailed joyously by young officers and he made joyous replies.

Robert, as they landed, saw anew and in greater detail the immense strength of Quebec.
He beheld the line of huge earthworks that Frontenac had built from the river St.Charles to Cape Diamond, and he saw the massive redoubts lined with heavy cannon.

Now, he wondered at the boldness of the New Englanders who had assailed the town with so much vigor, and who might have taken it.
"I recommend to you," said de Galisonniere, "that you go to the Inn of the Eagle in the Upper Town.

It is kept by Monsieur Berryer, who as a host is fully equal to Monsieur Jolivet of Montreal, and the merits of Monsieur Jolivet are not unknown to you." "They are not," said Robert heartily, "and we may thank you, Captain de Galisonniere, for your great courtesy in bringing us from Montreal.