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 had his own reasons for lacking respect for Lucas, aligned themselves with Oliver and Agnes. But they never could do anything effective. Lucas defied them; Quinlan could not condemn Lucas without hanging himself; so Agnes's father died in jail. And the years passed with no trace of Agnes's son.

But Oliver and she continued the search; they bought Resurrection Rock and set a watch there in case Noah Jo should return. When Hilaire de Chenal ran through his wife's money and could get no more from Lucas and placed his château on the market, Agnes bought it and broke it up and brought over the great salon to install in the house she built upon Resurrection Rock. She raised this as a constant rebuke to Lucas Cullen for what he had done; and as her gage of defiance to him. He did not know whose it was or what was its purpose until he saw in it that great room torn from his daughter's château and knew that his enemy had brought it there to be her son's. For, as the years went by, Agnes became firm in the belief that, in spite of the failure of the search, her boy lived.

When the war came, she knew he was of age so she visited the camps where the nation gathered its young men; at a camp in France she actually exchanged a few words with a reticent boy named Loutrelle, from Charlevoix county, Michigan, and upon her return to America, she received word from Boyne that an Indian named Mabo had brought up a white boy who had once been in the possession of a Chippewa fisherman named Jo, and that this boy, who had taken the name Barney Loutrelle, had joined the Canadian army and now was with the American forces.

Agnes immediately sailed for England, and, when the