By 1620, Baron Biencourt and his cousin, Charles La Tour, have built a fort at Cape Sable in Acadie. Having lived with the Mi maq and adapted well to their customs -- Charles La Tour marries one of them -- these two men now propose to hold Acadie for France. It stretches from present day Maine all the way to the GaspÔe. About the same time, an intendant arrives at the small settlement of KÔebec, far up the Great River of Canada. In charge of the settlement is Samuel Champlain, commandant and captain in the king s marine. Champlain s young wife, HÔelßene, fourteen years of age and recently arrived at the post, is already miserable and having religious visitations. The priests at KÔebec have tried living with the native peoples for several years. But their mission has failed. At first tolerated by the natives, the priests come to be scorned and despised by them. Chief task of the Jesuit spy in Acadie and the intendant at Kebec is to find the lost Jesuit relic of Lorcan ua Tua-thail, known to the world as St. Lawrence O Toole, bishop of Dublin, who died in Normandy in the 1100s. The Jesuits will not return to the New World without it.