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It was she who tenderly prepared the body for burial, who telegraphed to Gaston at Audierne, getting a reply from Jacques that he was not yet back from London. The next day Andree was found a quiet place in the cemetery at Montmartre. In the evening Alice and her relative started for Audierne. On board the Fleur d'Orange Gaston struggled with the problem. There was one thought ever coming.
The Pointe du Raz enchanted me. I remained twelve days at Audierne, in the house of Father Batifoule, who was so big and so fat that they had been obliged to cut a piece out of the table to let in his immense abdomen. I set out every morning at ten o'clock.
I heard the Captain say something about "Audierne Bay," and then, a little later, the master said something about "land takes a westerly trend Penmarks;" and, finally, the Captain, as though closing a discussion, said, "Very well, then, we will try her, while there is still room, and the sooner the better. Get the mainsail on her again at once, Mr Howard."
The letter was written in guarded language, because Christian had arrived at the conclusion that the only means he had of despatching it was through the hands of Rene Drucquer. The crew of the Deux Freres were not now allowed to speak with him. He possessed no money, and it would have been folly to attempt posting an unstamped letter addressed to England in a little place like Audierne.
They had reached the coast of France at a point where it forms a deep recess, called Audierne Bay, from either side of which project capes that must be cleared in order to gain once more the open sea. One only of the three escaped. The Droits de l'Homme, unmanageable for want of sail power, tried to anchor, but drove, and struck on a shoal some distance from the beach.
The Revolutionaire, 110, wrecked Dec. 24, on the Mingan rock, near Brest; the Neuf Thermidor, 80. Scipion, 80, and Superbe, 74, foundered in a heavy gale on the 28th of January; and the Neptune, 74, wrecked in Audierne Bay.
On the 23rd of August following, the squadron, now consisting of six frigates, which had sailed from Falmouth on the 7th, chased the French frigate Volontaire, and the corvettes Alerte and Espion, into the Bay of Audierne, a large bay immediately to the southward of Brest, having the promontory at the south entrance of that harbour, the Bec du Raz, for its northern, and Penmarck Point for its southern extremity.
"In teaching I have learnt." Vellacott merely nodded his head. "Do you know why I sent for you?" continued the missionary. "No." "I sent for you in order to tell you that I burnt that letter at Audierne." "I came to that conclusion, for it never arrived." "I want you to forgive me." Vellacott laughed. "I never thought of it again," he replied heartily. The priest was looking keenly at him.
Go to his uncle and tell him that he must remove himself for ever from the situation? Demand it, force it? Impossible this was Europe. They arrived at Douarnenez. The diligence had gone. A fishing-boat was starting for Audierne. He decided to go by it.
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