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They see it bend or hear the rattle of its leaves. The coup de Joran, most sudden and devastating of mountain winds, is on the way from the precipice of the Creux du Van. It comes howling like artillery down the deep Gorges de l'Areuse. They run to fasten windows, collect the washing from roof and garden, drive the cattle into shelter, and close the big doors of the barns.
When we anchored at the entrance of the Creux, and the small boats came out to carry us ashore, I managed easily to secure a place in the first, and to lose sight of her in the bustle of landing. As soon as my feet touched the shore I started off at my swiftest pace for the Havre Gosselin.
In crossing over to it a distance of rather more than a mile I encountered Julia's friends, Emma and Maria Brouard. "You here again, Martin!" exclaimed Emma. "Yes," I answered; "Captain Carey set me down at the Havre Gosselin, and is gone round to meet me at the Creux." "You have been to see that young person?" asked Maria. "Yes," I replied.
She saw Philip Vaudin come round from the Creux in his boat and run across to the rock, and almost as soon as he had disappeared round Quette d'Amont, he came speeding back, alone, and not to the harbour, but straight to the fishermen's rough landing-place inside Brenière. "What is it then, Philip?" she asked anxiously, as he hauled himself up the rocks on to the turf.
If I could have knocked him on the head and dropped him in the sea and said nothing to nobody " "Don't be absurd, Jock," said Margaret, and her voice showed that the matter was troubling her in spite of his assurances. "After lunch I shall call for him and take him for a little walk. If you'd seen him when he got to the Bel-Air after toiling up the Creux Road! He was nearly in pieces.
But upon Friday afternoon Tardif, who had been down to the Creux Harbor, brought back the information that one of the Sark cutters was about to venture to make the passage across the Channel the next morning, to attend the Saturday market, if the wind did not rise again in the night. It was clear as day what I must do.
For no man may look death so closely in the face as that without being stirred to the depths. "A close thing!" breathed Le Marchant, as we got onto our feet and found the solid earth still rolling beneath us. "God's mercy!" I said, and we sped up the steep Creux Road, among the ferns and flowers and overhanging trees. My heart was leaping exultantly.
"Ces Insulaires voudraient bien que les Hurons ne vinssent point aux Francois & que les Francois n'allassent point aux Hurons, afin d'emporter eux seuls tout le trafic," etc. This "Nation de l'Isle" has been erroneously located at Montreal. Its true position is indicated on the map of Du Creux, and on an ancient MS. map in the Depot des Cartes, of which a fac-simile is before me.
For there, from out the Creux had come a boat and another, and another, and another four boat-loads of them again! So they were coming, after all, and his hopes died sudden death. Well let them come and take him and have their will. He was not the first who had paid the price for what he had not done, and human nature must fall to pieces if hung too long on tenterhooks.
She stood there watching, until she saw the boats put off, and then she turned and sped like a rabbit across the waste lands across the Coupée over Clos Bourel fields into Dixcart over Hog's Back to the Creux. She ran through the tunnel just as the boats came up, and her eyes were wide with expectant fear, as they swept them hungrily.
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