found that a courier had just
arrived from Montreal with despatches, accompanied by the most urgent
orders that he should carry them to Paris without delay. A ship
appointed to sail from Quebec on the following morning was even
indicated to him as the one in which he was to take his passage without
fail. This was particularly annoying under all circumstances, and at
first Isidore was inclined to demur, or even to refuse compliance; but
on a little reflection he saw that for many reasons this was not to be
thought of, and he accordingly decided to carry out his orders. On the
following morning he was an early visitor at Madame de Rocheval's, and
his first inquiry was after poor Amoahmeh. To his amazement he learnt
that the doctor who had been sent for on the preceding day had
succeeded, though with much difficulty and after a long time, in
allaying the girl's excitement, and that she had then dropped into a
deep sleep, apparently from sheer exhaustion. She had awoke that
morning calm and quiet, and the doctor, who was with her at the time,
had gradually, and to his extreme astonishment, discovered that her
reason, which had in fact given way two or three years previously amid
the horrors of an Indian raid, had partially if not entirely returned.
The strangeness of all around her and her inability to recollect any
recent events had, however, plainly begun to distress her, and the
doctor, fearing a relapse, had given the strictest injunctions that
only one person, namely, Madame de Rocheval, should on any account be
permitted to see her. With this and other precautions he was not
without hope that her recovery might be ultimately insured, and he
attributed it entirely to the strong emotion and subsequent revulsion
of feeling caused by the power and pathos with which the young soldier
had given the soul-stirring and touching melody of the great master.

It was a source of the liveliest satisfaction to young de Beaujardin to
be able to look forward to Amoahmeh's complete restoration to reason,
and he could only regret that he could not be allowed to see her and
express his good wishes. His last hours at Quebec, however, were
devoted to making arrangements with Boulanger to receive her under his
roof as soon as she should be well enough to be removed, which the
doctor hoped would be the case before Madame de Rocheval's departure.
Finally Isidore took leave of his friends, and with the warmly
expressed wish that he and