The evening world., 1920-07-27

peTTOr winch NeIOnlQub al<pA
repeatedly observed in Honorine.l He
made the sign of the cross and said,
in a low whisper:
Then then. it's hap
pening. Maine Honorlne7 Z.
Maguennoc said it would d.
Only the other day, in my boat he
was saying, 1t won't Oe long now
Everybody ought to get
away"
And suddenly the sailor turned on
his heel and made for the staircase.
Stay where you are, Correjou,"
said Honorine. in a voice of COM
mand.
I'VE must get away. MaguennOc
said so. Everybody has got to go"
Stay where you are" Honorine re-
peated.
Correjou stopped, undecidedly. And
HonOrine continued:
I'VE are agreed. We must go. We
shall start tomorrow, toward the
evening. But first we must attend TO
Monsieur Antoine and to Marie lie
GOff. Look here, you go to the sis
ters Archignat and send them to keep
watch by the dead. They are bad
women but they are used to doing
that. Say that two of the three must
come. Each OF them shall have
double the ordinary fee"
And after that, Ma me Honoriner
you and all the old men will see
TO the collins; and at daybreak we
will bury the bodies in consecrated
ground in the cemetery OF the chapel"
nj af "a m HnnnFlnn
After that, you will be free and
the others too. You can pack up and
be on
But you, Maine Honorine?"
81 have the boat That's enough
talking. Are we agreed?"
Yes, we're agreed. 1t means one
more night to spend here. But l
suppose that nothing fresh will hap
pen between. this and tomorrow p
Why no, why no-Go, Correjou
Hurry. And above all don't tell the
others that Maguennoc' is dead-or
we shall never keep them here"
That's a promise. Maine Homo
rine."
The man FASTENED away.
An hour later, two Of the sisters
Archignat appeared. two skinny,
shrivelied old hafis, looking like
witches in their dirty, greasy caps
with the black-velvet bows. Homo
rlne was taken to her own room on
the same floor, at the end of the left
wing.
! And the vigil Of the dead began.
/ .NerOnique spent the first part OF
the night beside her fathers body
and then went and sat with Honorine.
whose condition seemed to grow worse
She ended by doing off and was
7 Weakened by the Breton woman, who
said TO her, in one of those accesses
/ of fever in which the brain still re-
tains a certain lucidity:
Francois must be hiding
and NJ. Stephane too The isl
and has safe hiding places, which
Maguennoc showed them. We shan't
see them, therefore. and no one will
know anything about them"
Are you sure?"
quite. So listen to me. To-mor-
row, when everybody has left SareR
and when we two are alone. l shall
blow the signal with my horn and he
Will come here"
Veronique was Mortified:
But don't want to see him!" she
exclaimed, Indignantly. Il loaths
him! l. Ike my father. / curse
him! Have you forgotten he
killed father, before our eyes! IL
killed Marie lie GOh! He tried tC
XIII you! No, what I feel fOl
him is hatred and disgust! The mon.
ster!"
The Breton woman took her hand
as she had formed habit of doing
and murmured:
0''DOn't condemn him yet Fl,
did not know what he was doing"
What do you mean? He did no
know? why, l saw his eyes. Vorskr!
eyes!"
: He did not know . he wa
, mad" a
Mad? Nonsense!" y
yes, Madame Veronique, know
tile boy. He's the kindcst creature Oh
earth. II he did all this, it was be
cause he went mad suddenly
he and NJ. Stephane. They must boil
be weeping in despair now"
ITS impossible l can't believe H.
, you can't believe II because yo
know nothing of what is happenint
+ and OF what is going to happei
, |. But, if you did know or
: there are things. there ar
] things!"
Her voice was no longer audible
y She was silent but her eyes rename
y wide open and her lips moved with
, out uttering a sound.
Nothing occurred until the morn
= ing. Al . CLOCK NerOnlQue hea r
< them mailing down the collins: and al
q most Immediately afterwards the doc
Of the room in which she sat wa
opened and the sisters Archigna en-
, tered like whirlwind, both great
} excited.
, They had heard the truth from Cor
rejou, who, to give himself Coura q,
had taken a drop too much to drin
) and was talking at random:
i "MaguennoC Is deadl" they sCreame,
"Maguennoc is dead and you neve
told us! Give us our money, quick
We're goIng!"
The moment they We're paid the
u ran away as fast as their legs woul
a carry them; and, an hour later som
n other women, informed by them, cam
hurrying TO drag their men from thei
j. work. They all used the same words
IS I'VE must go! We must get read
TO start! TN be too late al
j forwards. The two beats can take u
10 ALL"
l. Honorine had TO intervene with a
-. her authority and Neronique wa
II obliged to distribute money. And IN
funeral was hurriC dly conducted n,
q lar away was an old chapel care
M rully restored by NJ dHcrEemon
II, where a priest came once mont
= from Pont- rAbbe to say mass, Bessie
~ - ,,,a tho ancient cemetery of ~