Look at the red glare upon the shifting fog banks! Is it not like some wild diabolic carnival?
One could fancy one saw the forms of demons flitting to and fro in all that reek and glare." Humphrey's grave young face wore a rather stern look.
"I have seen other fires than that, and heard of those I have not seen--fires the memory of which will live in my heart for years and years! If we burn the vessels of the French, is it not because they have hounded on the Indians to burn our homesteads, ay, and with them our defenceless wives and children, mothers and sisters?
Shall not deeds like these bring about a stern retaliation?
Are we not here to take vengeance upon those who have been treacherous foes, and shamed the Christian profession that they make?
Shall we pity or spare when we remember what they have done?
The blood of our brothers cries out to us.

We do but repay them in their own coin." "Yes," returned Julian thoughtfully; "there is a stern law of reaping and sowing ordained of God Himself.

We may well believe that we are instruments in His hands for the carrying out of His purpose.

Yet we must seek always to be led of Him, and not to take matters into our own hands.

'Vengeance is mine; I will repay, saith the Lord.'" "I believe He will," said Humphrey, with a flash in his eyes; "but give it to me to be there to see!" "As I think we shall," answered Julian, "for I believe that the key of the war will lie next at Quebec.