"Are you the white man I guided ?" "Ay," I answered, rejoicing at this rare good fortune, "and I beg you to listen to what I say.

There will be a boat awaiting us beneath the old Agency building at midnight.

You must be there with De Croix." "De Croix ?" "Yes; I know not if that be his name to you, but I mean the Frenchman whose life you saved.

Will you take him thither at midnight, together with the rifle I left in the council lodge ?" For a moment she did not answer.

Doubtless it was a bitter struggle for her thus to agree even to meet the man again.