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Gache found that these young mothers were by no means more exposed than others to abortion or to other complications of pregnancy. Except in four cases of slightly contracted pelvis, delivery was normal, though rather longer than in older primiparæ. Damage to the soft parts was, however, rare, and, when it occurred, in every case rapidly healed.
Every woman had brought gâche, biscuits and special vraicquing cakes: while the rich farmers had provided a plentiful supply of cider which had been brought down in little barrels swung to the carts. It was a merry time, and Blaisette Le Mierre was looked upon as the queen of the feast. Very few spoke to Ellenor, for she was shunned as a marked character.
She came straight across to us, and the other girls watched eagerly to see which of us she would speak to first for Midsummer Eve is as full of signs and omens as Aunt Jeanne's gâche of currants. She gave a hand to each of us, the left to me and the right to young Torode, and the left is nearer the heart, said I to myself. "Phil, mon cher," she cried joyously.
But Aunt Jeanne's pie was finished and we were down to the ham bone, and what little bread and gâche we had left was growing hard, and by that Carette said we had been there at least three days, and we looked for George Hamon's coming at any moment, except when the tunnel was growling and the Boutiques roaring and sobbing.
"There is a pie and a ham, and I made bread and gâche to-day," said Aunt Jeanne, picking up a big basket and beginning to pack it with all she could think of and lay hands on. "Water?" asked Carette. "Plenty of water, both salt and fresh," said Uncle George. "All the same, a can of milk won't hurt," said Aunt Jeanne. "Carette, ma fille, fill the biggest you can find."
"It couldn't have been better, Aunt Jeanne. And as for the gâche it was simply delicious." "Crais b'en! If there's one thing I can do, it's make gâche. And it's not all finished yet," and she went to the press and brought out a cake like a cartwheel, and cut it into spokes. "There are not many things you can't do, it seems to me, Aunt Jeanne," I said. "That cider was uncommonly good too."
How I wish she had known!" sighed Carette longingly, for Aunt Jeanne Falla's gâche had a name all over Sercq. "And everybody is well except old Père Guérin, and he is cutting a new tooth, they say, and it makes him sour in the temper." "Why, he's over ninety!" exclaimed Carette. "Ninety-two next January. That's why he's so annoyed about it.
"And how did you leave them all in Sercq? And when did you see Aunt Jeanne last? And who's taking care of my boat? And " "Wait!" I laughed, "or I shall forget some of them. I saw Aunt Jeanne this morning just before I left. She thought we sailed at once. She would have sent you her love, and maybe some gâche, if she had known " "Ah, ma fé!
And, in the intervals of such hard work, we ate cold meats, cunningly cooked, and of excellent quality because Aunt Jeanne had bred them herself; and the best made bread and the sweetest butter in Sercq, and heaps of spicy gâche, all of Aunt Jeanne's own making. And we drank cider of Aunt Jeanne's own pressing, and equal to anything you could get in Guernsey.
Gache of Montpellier, who assumed the grave responsibility of destroying them and of thus suppressing for ever the most important evidence in the law-suit which posterity will for ever be bringing against Alfieri and Mme. d'Albany in favour of Charles Edward, or against Charles Edward in favour of Alfieri and Mme. d'Albany.
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