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He played "Auld Scottish airs," and many of the old men, mellowed with whiskey, wept in the bar-room of the little hotel at Stornaway. The courtesy of Major Dugas, and the civil bearing of the men, told upon the people, but nevertheless they did not abate one jot of what they called their loyalty to Donald. The latter's best friends now saw there could only be one ending.
Many of the girls who had danced in her salons two years before, and even their younger sisters, who had had no chance to "come out," are helping Madame Dugas, both as nurses and in many practical ways; washing and doing other work of menials as cheerfully as they ever played tennis or rode in la chasse.
John in this ship have been preserved, including those of Charles Belliveau, Charles Dugas, Denis St. Sceine, Joseph Guilbault, Pierre Gaudreau, Denis St. Sceine, jr., M. Boudrault and two families of Grangers.
Every fresh measure of the authorities was known to Donald, and during the first week devoted, as we have said, to a rigorous search of the farmhouses likely to be visited by the fugitive the police repeatedly reached his hiding-place only to find that the bird had just taken wing! Major Dugas was in his room at the Stornaway hotel. A severe look was in his eye. He had tried conciliation.
Not for a moment did the idea cross their gentle minds that any mortal force short of invasion by the enemy could bring them into contact with it. But that force was already in possession of Bourg. Madame Dugas was a woman of endless resource.
The expedition arrived in Stornaway upon a raw morning in April. Donald knew all that could be learned within an hour. "I must be careful now," he said. "Well, if they can follow me through the woods on snowshoes, they're welcome to begin the pursuit." Major Dugas' capacity was largely magisterial.
It was apparent that the limited population of Bourg did not in the least mind being scattered by their Mayor, for the children shrieked with delight, and although you see few smiles in the provinces of France these days, and far more mourning than in Paris, at least we encountered no frowns. The heroine of Bourg is Madame Dugas.
One wonders if these devoted Frenchwomen will have anything left of their fortunes if the war continues a few years longer. Madame Dugas made no complaint, but as an example of the increase in her necessary expenditures since 1914 she mentioned the steadily rising price of chickens. They had cost two francs at the beginning of the war and were now ten.
Madame Olivier, like Madame Dugas a dame du monde and an infirmière major, went to one of the hospitals at the Front on the day war broke out, nursed under fire, of course, but displayed so much original executive ability as well as willingness to do anything to help, no matter what, that she was soon put in charge of the wounded on trains.
Donald was to be found, and his friends pledged their honor that he would meet the Major when and where he pleased, provided the latter would give his word that he would take no measures to arrest him. Major Dugas hesitated for a long time, but finally accepted the terms. He was severely blamed in the press for parleying with an outlaw.
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