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I do not recall how ues we pushed our way up the streath of tie river, bearing a muddier current, led toward the north and west Those were neither days nor ue ih the dense haze of earlyI re away to a darker green of the heavy forest behind, and the ever- along its surface

Nor was there any happening within our boat to reflect upon, excepting that our new co himself to me, in spite of a choleric temper apt to burst forth over trifles He and De Noyan would have quarrelled e of the other The greatest cause I found for criticism was his interminable prayers, and the bull voice in which he offered theodly ancestors, yet I felt there could be no necessity for ht Yet neither entreaty nor threat moved him to desist, so I cahty deaf, or else was totally unconscious of his own lung power As to his appetite--but there are things of which onethat, all in all, he was not so bad a comrade

De Noyan kept to his nature, and I liked hih it is not pleasant to have at your side a gay cavalier one moment and a peevish woman the next You never knohich may be uppermost Yet he perfor his longin provincial French, was mostly what he should be, a careless soldier of fortune, to whom life appealed more as a play than a stern duty He was of that spiritback upon it, I can only wonder he bore the burden as cheerfully as he did Beneath his reckless, gru exterior, the metal of the man was not of such poor quality

However continual labor and enforced companionship told upon the rest, Mada our lips from many a sharp retort that had threatened to disrupt our party long before this ti strife, for noa true heart beneath his doublet could find spirit to quarrel before the disapproving glance of her dark eyes It was thus we toiled forward, until one frosty reat strea its reddish, ainst which we had struggled so long Slowly rounding the low,of down-pouring waters against our bow, I observed the old Puritan suddenly cock up his ears, like so eyes froh the spot looked familiar