The boy would have boasted of such an acquaintance long before this.

You know him, you say,--for how long ?" "Since yester even, if you must know.

But he has a face, Monsieur, a face frank and honest, not like that of a man long trained at courts to deceive.

'T is for that I trust him, and have called him friend." "You may rue the day." "No, Captain de Croix," she exclaimed, proudly.

"I know the frontiersmen of my father's blood.