The Intermountain Catholic. (Salt Lake City [Utah] ;) 1899-1920, 1910-01-08

bright smile that promised well for the success of
the message.
The two women now ran to the stables and be-
gan TO search the travelling bags. Sophies delicate
myers tugged and strained at the hard straps.
Would she get at the contents in time? In the tap
room the men were laughing and talking loud. At
any moment they might come out and find her
rounded by their scattered possessions.
Suddenly door slammed Sophie utterly I'M
nerved, sprang to her feet. But it proved false
alarm, and she returned to the search, Gliding her
self for her cowardice. Desperately she once more
set to work, though she trenbled at every sound
The return of the innkeepers daughter increased
her alarm
SThey are comingp' she cried dancing in her
excitement. "The gendarmes are coming! They
are all standing up ready to GO"
Happily, at this moment the farmers wife gave
cry of JOY
Il have it! Quick, Mademoisellel Let us es-
cape while we can"
In trlce the two had slipped out of the
stables and were flying down the road Not mo-
ment too soon. The gendarmes coming out of the
Inn, caught sight of their vanishing figures and, at
once dlvinng their purpose set out in pursuit with
many oath and threat
Happily for the women, bend in the road soon
concealed them from sight; and taking advantage
OF TINS fortunate circumstance, they down
narrow path and, turning into cornfeld, threw
themselves down among the sheaves. Scarcely were
tiioJ hIuoen With Une 2endarmeS came IN pursuit;
out the heds OF corn stretched In every direction
safely concealing the fugitives The baffled gen
darmes finally went back to the stables, thus en-
aDlng the women to continue their flight.
At the entrance to a wood the two decided to
separate. While the farmers wife, who carried the
pyX, sought concealment in the trunk of hollow
tree, Sophie started for home in order to warn her
sisters. Now that the Blessed Sacrament was safe
she saw more clearly the danger to which she had
exposed her family. She scarcely dared to think
what might be their fate, should the gendarmes ar
rive before her. Spurred on by her anxiety, she
flew along, across stubby fields and marshy mea-
dows until the little white house came in view
10 warn her sisters was the work of a moment
and IN remarkably short space, of time the in
mates of the house had escaped into the woods
lying at the back of the house. Scarcely had they
departed, when the gendarmes arrived, to find an
empty house, and only one old woman who stoutly
refused to answer their questions
The Mademoiselles de Gagniere took refuge with
a woodcutter and his wife, who, as it happened,
were already sheltering the priest And before long
a new recruit added to the little party: for at
nightfau the peasant woman made her way to tie
little hut, where, with tears of emotion, the old
priest took from her hands the pyx and heard the
story of their brave deed
week had passed by, during which the fugi-
tves had scarcely dared to leave their place of con
cealment, when an unforeseen event made it safe
for them to return to their homes. The gendarmes
who had laid sacriegious hands on the Blessed Sac
rament were murdered on the high road by band
of robbers. Not long afterward, too, came the re-
assuring news that the Revolution was at an end
the Dlrectoire having given place to the Consulate
and Bonaparte, by his proclamation of the "Li-
berte des Cultes, brought priest and faithful
locking back to their deserted parishes.