Madeleine’s little brothers, brave as herself, helped in every way. On the seventh day of the siege, when they were all tired out and greatly in need of sleep, and Madeleine was trying to rest with her head on a table, her brothers rushed in with the news that French soldiers were coming to their aid.

It was Lieutenant de La Monnerie and forty men. News of the danger of the little fort had been carried to Montreal by some labourers who had managed to escape from the fields when they heard the cannon fired, and La Monnerie had been sent at once.

Instead of finding the place all in ruins, as he had feared, everything was secure and Madeleine in charge. The Iroquois hurried away when they saw that help had come.

Soon the mother and father returned to their children, of whom they had good cause to be proud.