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"But de Mezy is not going to fight Willet, he is going to fight you."
"David Willet has been a father to me, more, in truth, than most fathers
are to their sons. I've been with him for years, Captain de
Galisonniere, and all the useful arts he knows he has tried long and
continuously to teach to me."
"Then you mean that the sword you now wear at your thigh is a weapon and
not an ornament?"
"Primarily, yes, but before we go further into the matter of the sword,
I wish to ask you a favor."
"Ask a dozen, Lennox. We've been companions of the voyage and your
quarrel with de Mezy does not arouse any hostility in me."
"I felt that it was so, and for that reason I ask the favor. We are
strangers in Quebec. We did not come here to seek trouble with anybody,
and so I ask you to be a second for me in this affair with de Mezy. Dave
and Tayoga, of course, would act, but at the present juncture, ours
being an errand of peace and not of war, I'd prefer Frenchmen."
"Gladly I'll serve you, Lennox, since you indicate that you're a
swordsman and are not going to certain death, and I'll bring with me in
the morning a trusty friend, Armand Glandelet, one of our _honnetes
gens_ who likes de Mezy as little as I do.
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