preserver of her brother, and vowing that she would pray for him to
her life's end.

Soon after that memorable event in her young life, Pierre Philibert
was sent to the great military schools in France to study the art of
war with a view to entering the King's service, while Amelie was
placed in the Convent of the Ursulines to be perfected in all the
knowledge and accomplishments of a lady of highest rank in the
Colony.

Despite the cold shade of a cloister, where the idea of a lover is
forbidden to enter, the image of Pierre Philibert did intrude, and
became inseparable from the recollection of her brother in the mind
of Amelie. He mingled as the fairy prince in the day-dreams and
bright imaginings of the young, poetic girl. She had vowed to pray
for him to her life's end, and in pursuance of her vow added a
golden bead to her chaplet to remind her of her duty in praying for
the safety and happiness of Pierre Philibert.

But in the quiet life of the cloister, Amelie heard little of the
storms of war upon the frontier and down in the far valleys of
Acadia. She had not followed the career of Pierre from the military
school to the camp and the battlefield, nor knew of his rapid
promotion, as one of the ablest officers in the King's service, to a
high command in his native Colony.

Her surprise, therefore, was extreme when she learned that the boy
companion of her brother and herself was no other than the renowned
Colonel Philibert, Aide-de-Camp of His Excellency the Governor-
General.