This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXII THE DECISION There were few preparations to make before leaving the camp; to put out the fire, and to make into a small bundle the cup and pannikin and a little food were all. While Dionis and Jaques were busied with these things, Fauchet spoke aside to the priest, who was surprisingly ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1911 edition. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER XXXII THE DECISION There were few preparations to make before leaving the camp; to put out the fire, and to make into a small bundle the cup and pannikin and a little food were all. While Dionis and Jaques were busied with these things, Fauchet spoke aside to the priest, who was surprisingly renewed by food and sleep. "Brother Chabet, we have, by the mercy of God, the opportunity to leave the forest at once. We have not decided yet where to go, whether to the northern stockade of Sieur Vincennes, or to the little fort far to the south where Father Doutrelle now waits a chance passage to Nouvelle Orleans. In either case you will be able to join your order, for, by the Wabash and the portage far north, we can reach Detroit, and then on to Quebec without further trouble, while, by the south, you, too, can get passage in some trader's batteau to Nouvelle Orleans. At either place you will find welcome--" "By all the saints!" broke in the priest excitedly, "will a man, free for the first time in his life, put the shackles on again? The savage may burn me at the stake, the wild beast tear my flesh from my bones, but go back to that slow torture of soul and body? No! No! A captive, a slave, all my life I never knew what freedom meant. I hate the trammels of monastic life as an Indian would! I have no vocation for it! I had no choice! Now I am free. And I choose this savage life rather--" "He raves with fever," thought Fauchet. "It will be a fearful risk to have one in his state in the little canoe! But, we can't leave him. God forbid! As well murder him outright!" He looked into the distorted face of the man, quivering with fierce emotion. His haggard eyes, his emaciated form, told how sharp had been his struggle with the forest, who is...
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