wife's greeting, but instead he found its walls shattered and the buildings burnt. A priest appearing, La Tour seizes him, demanding an explanation, and thus spoke the priest: "'No wolf, Lord of Estienne, has ravaged thy hall, But thy red-handed rival, with fire, steel and ball! On an errand of mercy, I hitherward came, While the walls of thy castle yet spouted with flame. "'Pentagoet's dark vessels were moored in the bay, Grim sea-lions roaring aloud for their prey.' 'But what of my lady?' cried Charles of Estienne: 'On the shot-crumbled turret, thy lady was seen: "'Half-veiled in the smoke-cloud, her hand grasped thy pennon, While her dark tresses swayed in the hot breath of cannon! But woe to the heretic, evermore woe! When the son of the Church and the Cross is his foe! "'In the track of the shell, in the path of the ball, Pentagoet swept over the breach of the wall! Steel to steel, gun to gun, one moment--and then Alone stood the victor, alone with his men! "'Of its sturdy defenders, thy lady alone Saw the cross-blazoned banner float over St. John.' 'Let the dastard look to it,' cried fiery Estienne, 'Were D'Aulnay King Louis, I'd free her again.' "'Alas for thy lady! No service from thee Is needed by her whom the Lord hath set free: Nine days in stern silence her thraldom she bore, But the tenth morning came, and Death opened her door!'" La Tour returned, but hardly in the manner justifying the revenge indicated in the poem. D'Aulnay died shortly afterwards, whereupon La Tour recaptured his fort and domain in 1653, but not at the head of an army, diplomatically accomplishing his victory by marrying D'Aulnay's widow. This post was known as Fort La Tour until the British conquest in the eighteenth century, when it was changed to Fort Frederick. It then became a fishing station, and was plundered in the Revolution. Afterwards, in 1783, about ten thousand exiled tories from the United States were landed there, this being the "Landing of the Loyalists" commemorated on May 18th as the founding of St. John, the charter dating from that day in 1785. Benedict Arnold was one of these refugees, he living in St. John for several years from 1786. A Monument in King Square commemorates the landing of the loyalists and the grant of the charter. Being built largely of wood, the city suffered from many disastrous fires, the worst being in June, 1877, when one-third of the place was burnt, involving a loss of over sixteen hundred buildings and nearly $30,000,000. St. John rose from the ruins with great vitality, the new construction being largely of brick and stone. The population now exceeds forty thousand. THE RIVER ST. JOHN.