Rice beheld this freak with
quizzical surprise, but he had noted the disappearance of more than one
maid through that gate, and was glad to have Maria with them.
"Come on," whispered Peggy, seizing her. "Clarice Vigo has gone to fetch
Angelique, and then we shall be ready."
Behind the church, speaking all together like a chorus of blackbirds,
the girls were clustered, out of the bonfire's light. French and English
voices debated.
"Oh, I wouldn't do such a thing."
"Your mother did it when she was a girl."
"But the young men may find it out and follow."
"Then we'll run."
"I'm afraid to go so far in the dark."
"What, to the old Jesuit College?"
"It isn't very dark, and our old Dinah will go with us; she's waiting
outside the fence."
"But my father says none of our Indians are to be trusted in the dark."
"What a slander on our Indians!"
"But some of them are here; they always come to the St. John bonfire."
"All the men in Kaskaskia are here, too. We could easily give an
alarm.
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