We were walking up the green slope from the river to the house. Duncan broke off. 'What a herd of cattle,' he said, 'and such magnificent fields!--and the house! Roger, is it possible that this is your house? I had heard of it, but had no idea it was so fine.' Duncan was greeted with warm cordiality by my mother and my sisters, now both young women. But it was difficult for me to long refrain from telling the news I had heard. 'Mother, think of this--the new governor--Colonel Carleton--is coming up to see us, and to go hunting and fishing.' 'The new governor!' 'Yes, the governor. He'll be here to-morrow or next day.' Elizabeth clapped her hands gleefully. 'The governor!' she exclaimed; 'a soldier, a fine gentleman just from England, like those in books.' From my own farm a little later I wandered with Duncan to where David Elton worked in his field. 'Better off?' David said in answer to Duncan's question; 'of course I'm better off than I ever could have been in New England. I'll confess I thought it hard to be driven away as I was; but the lan' was poor an' rocky there. There was no prospect. There I had twenty acres; here I've two hundred. Then look at my stock, my lumber property, my marsh, my frame house here. He knows,' he said, pointing to me, 'the kin' of shanty I was living in, and would have died in, yonder. This is a better country. The war was the best thing that ever happened us. Let them have their rocky, poverty-stricken lan'; and to think of them now passin' laws that we'll be hanged "without benefit of clergy;" them are the words, aren't they? if we dare to go back. Go back,--back there!' He gave a loud, shrill laugh. 'I wouldn't go back if they made me president; an' I'd rather'--this dropping his voice to a reverent pitch--'I'd rather see any child in my family under the ground than under the new American flag. That,' he said, pointing to a Union Jack that flew from the top of a staff on his largest barn, 'that's the flag for me.' I saw the colour come up into Duncan's old face. 'Well said,' he exclaimed; 'well and nobly spoken.' Then turning to me as we walked away, 'Are there many like that on the river?' 'We're all like that,' I said. 'Why shouldn't we be? David is just one of thousands.' 'It will be a right loyal representative you'll be sending to the new parliament from here then, won't it? Who is likely to be chosen?' But my mind was on preparations for the coming of the governor. 'Wouldn't it be well to have the people gathered here to give the governor a reception when he lands?' ''Twould be capital, capital,' Duncan assented eagerly. 'He's not coming officially, but he'd be immensely pleased. Isn't the time too short, though?' he added. 'David would go for Father Bourg and the Indians--they're only a few miles up--I could see the French at Sainte Ann's; the people about here will come in swarms--at a word. It can be done,' I said.