CHAPTER XXXII — THE LORD OF SAINTE MARIE. CHAPTER XXXIII — THE SLAYING OF BROWN MOOSE. CHAPTER XXXIV — THE MEN OF BLOOD. CHAPTER XXXV — THE TAPPING OF DEATH. CHAPTER XXXVI — THE TAKING OF THE STOCKADE. CHAPTER XXXVII — THE COMING OF THE FRIAR. CHAPTER XXXVIII — THE DINING HALL OF SAINTE MARIE. CHAPTER XXXIX — THE TWO SWIMMERS. CHAPTER XL. PART I. — IN THE OLD WORLD. CHAPTER I — THE MAN FROM AMERICA. It was the sort of window which was common in Paris about the end of the seventeenth century. It was high, mullioned, with a broad transom across the centre, and above the middle of the transom a tiny coat of arms—three caltrops gules upon a field argent—let into the diamond-paned glass. Outside there projected a stout iron rod, from which hung a gilded miniature of a bale of wool which swung and squeaked with every puff of wind. Beyond that again were the houses of the other side, high, narrow, and prim, slashed with diagonal wood-work in front, and topped with a bristle of sharp gables and corner turrets. Between were the cobble-stones