Of a surety the tall girl, had come with the strangers, yet he had not
noticed her until that moment outside the stockade wall, when he had
caught the striking picture in the morning sun.
Name? Most certainly it would be in that list which the leader of the
party had promised him by noon. When he entered the big room the man
was there before him, a picturesque figure of a man, big and graceful
and dark of brow, with long black curls beneath his crimson cap. As
McElroy went forward he straightened up from his lounging position
against the railing and held out the paper he had promised.
"For enrollment, M'sieu," he said simply.
The factor took the proffered slip and read eagerly down its length,
done neatly in a finished hand.
"Adventurers," he read, "from Grand Portage on Lake Superior, bound for
the west,--agreed to stop for the length of one year at Fort de Seviere
on the Assiniboine River,--Prix Laroux and wife Ninette, Pierre and Cif
Bordoux and their wives Anon and Micene, Franz LeClede and wife Mora,
Henri Baptiste and wife Marie, and Maren Le Moyne, an unmarried woman
and sister to Marie Baptiste."
A sudden little light flamed for a moment in the young factor's blue
eyes.
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