Warren was in the prime of life, and the ardour of youth still burned within him.

He was impatient at the slow movement of the siege." The Siege of Louisbourg started by Warren's and Pepperrill's demand that the fortress surrender, and the historic answer of Duchambon, the French commander, that they should have their answer from the cannon's mouth.

It is not my purpose to tell of it in detail, for it lasted forty-seven days and strained the nerves of everyone to the breaking point.

But one or two things happened in the time which, to my mind, make our Captain seem a very human person.

There was, for instance, his amazing kindness, as unfailing to his captives as to his own men.