![]() ![]() In another blow to Jack’s pantheon of heroes, Toronto police records show that Théo was arrested there for possession of an unlicensed firearm.Īt La Grande Sauterelle’s request, they stop for the night near the site of Chief Thayendanegea’s grave. During their stop-over in Toronto, La Grande Sauterelle “borrows” a book from the library about Étienne Brûlé, which reveals details about his life that shock and disappoint Jack. ![]() Louis, the city Théo wrote beside his name in the visitor log at the Gaspé museum. He has always regarded his strong, daring brother with the same reverence as the French explorers. Jack says that, as children, he and Théo worshipped the explorers Cartier and Étienne Brûlé along with other heroes of French-Canadian history. ![]() The girl is clear-sighted and self-confident and helps Jack discover that the enigmatic words on Théo’s postcard are those of Jacques Cartier, the 16th-century French explorer of North America. The girl, along with her black kitten, joins Jack in his search for Théo. In Gaspé, the northern Quebec town from which Théo sent Jack his last postcard years ago, Jack meets La Grande Sauterelle, a 21-year-old “Métis” (part white and part Indian). Lacking inspiration to write another book, he sets out from Quebec City in his Volkswagen to find his brother, Théo, whom he hasn’t seen in 15 years. At age 40, a French Canadian writer who uses the pen name Jack Waterman has published five novels, but none of them satisfy him. ![]()
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