Here was one in _propria persona_; and one, too, who, in addition to all the heroic virtues, could speak excellent French and English, and dress like an English gentleman.
What wonder if that night mischief was done never to be undone, however long, however bitterly repented?
It would be too tedious to continue the story in detail.

Lady Deermount had constituted herself the patroness of many adventurers, but never of one cleverer than Bailey.

She absolutely believed and duly repeated the story he told her, which was briefly this:--His companion, whose many-syllabled Indian name he taught her, but who, in England, found his baptismal one of Christian more convenient, was the chief of a tribe once powerful, now fallen into decay.

To raise this tribe again was his one idea, his fervent ambition.

He had himself been educated by the French Jesuits, but, when fully informed, had seen the errors of their faith, and now earnestly desired to found among his people, English civilization and the Protestant religion.