"
"We will care well for him and keep him safe. He shall have
absolute justice, La Corne, but no favor."
An officer entered the room to report to the Governor that the
troops had reached their assigned posts, and that there was no
symptom of rioting among the people in any quarter of the city.
The Governor was greatly relieved by these tidings. "Now, La
Corne," said he, "we have done what is needful for the public. I
can spare you, for I know where your heart yearns most to go, to
offer the consolations of a true friend."
"Alas, yes," replied La Corne sadly. "Men weep tears of water, but
women tears of blood! What is our hardest grief compared with the
overwhelming sorrow and desolation that will pass over my poor
goddaughter, Amelie de Repentigny, and the noble Lady de Tilly at
this doleful news?"
"Go comfort them, La Corne, and the angel of consolation go with
you!" The Governor shook him by the hand and wished him Godspeed.
La Corne St. Luc instantly left the house. The crowd uncovered and
made way for him as they would have done for the Governor himself,
as with hasty strides he passed up the Rue du Fort and on towards
the Cape, where stood the mansion of the Lady de Tilly.
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