noticed before and believed to be a monogram. I quieted him a little,
then bringing the lamp-light to bear upon the faded ink, I was able
to decipher the device, which comprised a crown, three _fleurs-de-lis_
under, and a lamb bearing a banner, with the letters I.H.S. upon it.
"The arms of Rouen!" I exclaimed "and above them, some initials, yes,
a monogram!"
My companion sat up in his excitement.
"Ah! dat is what I cannot make quite out! Tree letter--_oui, vite,
cher mosdieu, vite_!"
I had to look very closely indeed to decipher these, but with the
aid of a small lens I found them to be "G. C. D'A."
There could be little doubt but that Etienne was the lineal
descendant of Guy Chezy D'Alencourt, native of Rouen, who came to
Canada in the same year as Bigot. I told him so and wondered what
his thoughts could be, for clasping my hands with as much force as
he possessed--and that is at times a wonderful force in the clasp of
the dying--he said with a great effort:
"If dat is so, _mossieu_, if dat is so, I have _O le bon Dieu_--I
have--_mossieu_, I have--O if dat is true"--
He fell back and I caught no more. The excitement proved too much
for my poor friend. When I spoke to him, he was unconscious and he
never fully recovered his senses. Alas! he lay in a few weeks,
beneath the sod of Grand Calumet Island, and France is ignorant of
the fact that a true aristocrat and simple-hearted gentleman existed
in the humble person of my friend the _habitant_, Etienne Guy Chezy
D'Alencourt, _alias_ "Netty."
Descendez a L'Ombre, ma Jolie Blonde.
The Honourable Bovyne Vaxine Vyrus refused to be vaccinated. Stoutly,
firmly and persistently refused to be vaccinated. Not even the
temptation of exposing to the admiring gaze of a medical man the
superb muscles and colossal proportions of an arm which had beaten
Grace and thrashed (literally) Villiers of the Guards, weighed with
him.
"It's deuced cool!" he said, to his cousin Clarges, of Clarges St.
Mayfair, a fair, slight fellow, with a tiny yellow moustache.
"Haven't I been six times to India, and twice to Africa; that filthy
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