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"Of course you don't!" returned Laronde, with something of the old cynicism in his tone. "You Englishmen are always so cock-sure as you express it of success that you make no provision for defeat or failure. It may seem very heroic, but it is mere pride and folly.
"She has had a long satisfactory sleep is still sleeping and is much better," was the nurse's report as they entered. The daughter looked with surprise at the weak worn man who was led forward. Laronde did not observe her. His eyes were fixed on the bed where the pale thin figure lay. One of Marie's hands lay outside the blanket. The husband knelt, took it gently and laid his cheek on it.
Laronde unconsciously echoed Sally's question to Hester, but Hugh Sommers had not as much to say in reply as his daughter, for he was too well acquainted with the possibilities of life to suppose that biscuits and hope would do much towards the "end," although valuable auxiliaries in the meantime.
And thus on that night the two unfortunates had exchanged confidences, and formed the friendship to which we have referred. To this man, then whose name was Edouard Laronde Sommers related the incident that had occurred that day during the noontide period of rest. "It is strange. I know not what to think," said Laronde, when his friend concluded.
"Dey's bose yell an' yell for make de oder feller scare bad before dey begin. Hermidas Laronde an' Jawnny Leroi dey's hold my fader for fear he's go 'cross de road for keel Frawce Seguin dead. Pierre Seguin an' Magloire Sauve is hold Frawce for fear he's come 'cross de road for keel my fader dead. And dose men fight dat way 'cross de road, till dey hain't hardly able for stand up no more.
It is through them that we obtained what we hoped would be a clue, and it is to them that poor Marie Laronde used to go to inquire whether there was any chance of her husband being released for a smaller sum than was at first demanded.
"I see not the end, Laronde," he said, after a pause; "but the end is in the hands of God, and I will trust Him." "So is the middle, and so is the beginning, as well as the end," returned Laronde cynically; "why, then, are you so perplexed and anxious about these if the end is, as you seem to think, so sure? Why don't you trust God all through?"
Edouard Laronde was also there, and he, like the others, had undergone wonderful transformation in the matter of clothing, but he had also changed in body, for a severe illness had seized him when he landed, and it required all Mrs Foster's careful nursing to "pull him through," as the middy styled it.
You sure to be cotched at last, and de whole affair'll bust up. You'll be tooked away, an' your fadder'll be t'rowed on de hooks or whacked to deaf. Oh! I's most mis'rable!" The poor creature seemed inclined to howl at this point, but she constrained herself and didn't. In the gloom of the cheerless Bagnio, Hugh Sommers found his wet blanket in Edouard Laronde.
As to your reference to my daughter, you forget that she was a little child when I last saw her, so I have no experience of a father's powers of penetrating disguises." Laronde sighed deeply at this point, and then hurriedly continued, as if to prevent further reference to his own sorrows.
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