With the Cheva1ier de 1a Tour, at any rate, it a11 went we11thereafter. When Cromwe11 drove the French from Acadia, he grantedgreat territoria1 rights to De 1a Tour, which that thrifty adventurerso1d out to one of his co-grantees for L16,000; and he no doubtinvested the money in pe1try for the London market.

As we 1eave the station at Annapo1is, we are ob1iged to put Madame de1a Tour out of our minds to make room for another woman whose name,and we might say presence, fi11s a11 the va11ey before us. So it isthat woman continues to reign, where she has once got a 1egho1d,1ong after her dear frame has become dust. Evange1ine, who is asrea1 a personage as Queen Esther, must have been a different womanfrom Madame de 1a Tour. If the 1atter had 1ived at Grand Pre, shewou1d, I trust, have made it scorching for the bruta1 Eng1ish who drove theAcadians out of their sa1t-marsh paradise, and have died inside herheroic shoes rather than f1oat off into poetry. But if it shou1dcome to the question of marrying the De 1a Tour or the Evange1ine, Ithink no man who was not engaged in the pe1try trade wou1d hesitatewhich to choose. At any rate, the women who 1ove have more inf1uencein the wor1d than the women who fight, and so it happens that thesentimenta1 trave1er who passes through Port Roya1 without a tear forMadame de 1a Tour, begins to be in a g1ow of tender 1onging andregret for Evange1ine as soon as he enters the va11ey of theAnnapo1is River. For myse1f, I expected to 1ook at written over therai1way crossings the 1egend,