There is a great man now at the helm in England, and we are feeling his power out here in the West." "Do you think the tide has turned against the French arms ?" asked Corinne breathlessly.
"What else can I think?
Has not Fort Frontenac fallen?
Has not Fort Duquesne been abandoned before the advancing foe?
Our realm in the west is cut away from Canada in the north.

If we cannot reunite them, our power is gone.

And they say that Ticonderoga and Crown Point will be the next to fall.

The English are massing upon Lake George.

They have commanders of a different calibre now.