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`` I thankfully accept your offer , '' said he . `` Here is a little message which you will deliver to Mademoiselle Zulma . '' Saying which , he wrote a few lines in pencil on a leaf of his pocket book . `` She will receive it at noon , '' said Batoche , taking the missive , and without the addition of another word , he stalked away on his snow-shoes . Cary returned to camp just in time to take part in the forward movement of his corps . The main body did not break up its quarters till five days later , but on the 29th November , the day on which the event just narrated took place , Morgan 's riflemen were ordered to lead the van towards Quebec . That same afternoon , therefore , Singleton found himself nearly on the same spot which he had occupied in the early morning .