idnight, to-morrow, then, the Indian
will be here. He will give a sound like a frog, immediately outside,
under the window. You must then open the window. If you see him, or
hear him, you must then get out, and he will take you to the woods.
After that he and the rest of the Indians will take you through the
woods to Port Royal, which they call Annapolis Royal. Here you will
be safe from Cazeneau until such time as may suit you to go back to
Boston. Annapolis Royal is about twenty-four leagues from this place,
and you can easily go there in two days."

Claude listened to all this without a word; and, after the priest had
ended, he remained silent for some time, with his eyes fixed on the
floor.

"The Indians will be armed," said the priest, "and will have a rifle
and a sword for you. So you need have no trouble about anything."

"My dear Pere Michel," said Claude, at last, "you lay me under very
great obligations; but will you not add to them by allowing me to
select my own route?"

"Your own route?" asked the priest. "What do you mean? You don't know
the country, especially the woods, while these Indians will be at
home there."

"What I mean is this," said Claude: "will you not allow me the use of
this Indian escort in another direction than the one you mention?"

"Another direction? Why, where else can you possibly go? Annapolis is
the nearest place for safety."

"I should very much prefer," said Claude "to go to Canso."

"To Canso!" said the priest, in great surprise; "to Canso! Why, you
would come on our track!"

"That is the very reason why I wish to go there. Once in Canso, I
should be as safe as in Annapolis."

The priest shook his head.

"From what I hear, Canso cannot be a safe place for you very long.
England and France are on the eve of war, and Cazeneau expects to get
back Acadie--a thing that is very easy for him to do. But why do you
wish to venture so near to Louisburg? Cazeneau will be there now; and
it will be a very different place from what it would have been had
you not saved Cazeneau from the wreck, and made him your enemy."

"My dear Pere Michel," said Claude, "I will be candid with you. The
reason why I wish to go in that direction is for the sake of being
near to Mimi, and on account of the hope I have that I may rescue
her."

"Mimi! Rescue her!" exclaimed the priest, astonished, not at the
young man's feelings towards Mimi, for those he had already
discovered, but rather at the