men, gentlemen of birth with lives and fortunes gone askew, and many of the native Canadian noblesse, who, like the nobles of France, forbidden to become merchants, became

of furs with a distressed noble or sei

c, went to Montreal, and there began to lay the foundation of his fame and fortune, and to send forth men who were as the sons of Jacob. In his heart he was always in sympathy with the woodsmen, and when they were proclaimed as perilous to the peace and prosperity of the king's empire, he stood stoutly by them. Adventurers, they traded as they listed; and when the Intendant Duchesnau could not bend t

for his blessing. Then he started for Quebec, and arriving there with Perrot and Du Lhut, went to the citadel at night and asked to be admitted to Count Frontenac. Perhaps the governor-grand half-barbarian as he was at heart-guessed the nature of the visit and, before he admitted Ib

to visit your governor, Mo

, your excellency,

at

bois. There is a price on the heads of Perro

k in ridd

your excellency with the Indians a hundred times. Their men have been a little roysteri

e you co

l have to shoot me; and, if you carry on the matter, your

had had with the bishop, who inveighed against the go

y. But himself, courtier as he was, had ever used heroical methods, and appreciated the reckless courage of youth. With grim humour he put all three

and since you have the advantage of me in this, I shall take care you pay the

bodyguard, I hope,"

ontenac, with a smile, for he was

d to take life seriously, had little of Iberville's gay spirit, but was just such a determined

tood between these two men, regardful, wondering, waiting; and at last, as we kn

e the fancies of a woman, or interpret the shadowy inclinations, the timid revulsions, which move them-they cannot tell why, any more than we. They would indeed be thankful to be solved unto themselves. The great moment for a man with a woman is when, by some clear guess or some special providence, he shows her in a flash her own mind. Her respect, her serious wonder, are all then making for his

lmost without warning; and with a touch of her old demureness and gaiety she had put him off, bidding him go win his laurels as commander. He was then commissioned for Hudson's Bay, and expected, on his return, to proceed to the Spaniards' country with Wi