"Learn to use it if you care for a whole skin, for I promise you that
we shall meet again." And turning my back on him, I strode out of the
Ottawa camp the richer by some information, and one foe.
CHAPTER V
A DECISION
I found Cadillac in his private room at the fort, and said to myself that
he looked like a man stripped for running. Not that his apparel had
altered since I had met him swaggering upon the beach the day before, but
his bearing had changed. He had dropped superfluities, and was hardened
and sinewed for action.
I expected him to rate me for my tardiness in reporting my interview with
the Englishman, but, instead, he greeted me with so much eagerness that I
saw that some of my news must have run before.
"What do you know?" I cried.
He looked at the crowd swarming outside the window. "That we are in a
hornets' nest," he said, with a wry smile. "But never mind that now. We
must talk rapidly. I have been waiting for you. I could not act till I
learned what you had done."
I bowed my regrets. "I was delayed. I saw the Englishman, and"----
He cut me short. "Never mind the Englishman," he cried, with a wave of
his impatient hand. "Tell me of the Ottawa camp.
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