He looked startled, but spoke harshly.

"What have you got in your head? These white people have been making a
fool of you."

"I remember better to-day than I ever remembered before. I am different.
I was a child: but to-day manhood has come. Father, what is a dauphin?"

The chief made no answer.

"What is a temple? Is it a church, like ours at St. Regis?"

"Ask the priest."

"Do you know what Bourbon is, father,--particularly a Bourbon ear?"

"Nothing that concerns you."

"But how could I have a Bourbon ear if it didn't concern me?"

"Who said you had such an ear?"

"Madame de Ferrier."

The chief grunted.

"At least she told De Chaumont," I repeated exactly, "I was the boy she
saw in London, that her father said had all the traits of the Bourbons.
Where is London?"