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Updated: July 7, 2025
"The soldier beckoned to several other soldiers who were in the background and ordered them to search the house. This they did with thoroughness. Marie had forgotten about the equipment of Captain Grivelet in the cellar, but it was brought home to her with a shock when the searchers came up bearing the stuff the French officer had left. The soldier in charge eyed the Padré and his niece sternly.
She was unmolested, though soldiers frequently spoke to her jokingly, to all of which she smiled and made some bright reply. "That night as she sat thinking in her room in the dark, her conversation with Captain Grivelet suddenly came back to her. He had been about to tell her something of importance, something that he wished her to do for her people. "'The cellar! exclaimed the child.
Marie, all ignorant of this, continued to keep the French informed of the movements of the enemy. "One night, after a day of heavy fighting on both sides, during which the Germans had been slowly pushed back, Marie was giving Captain Grivelet her report of the operations on the German side for that day.
There was little food and her treatment was harsh, so that her days were a misery and her nights a nightmare. "A long time elapsed ere Captain Grivelet learned, through the Red Cross, what had become of the child. His sorrow had been keen, for he believed that she had been executed. The Padré was still in a prison camp the last I heard of the case.
"'I would speak with Captain Grivelet' "'He is not here. I cannot reach him. "'It is important. Find him and tell him that the little Marie would speak with him. Tell him to come at ten o'clock this evening and Marie will be here at the telephone. He will understand. "Marie put back the telephone and carefully closed the opening.
"He became very fond of the child. Captain Grivelet was his name and, recognizing in Marie a true patriot, he had explained many things to her about the war, so that, for a child so young, Marie was able to form a very clear idea of the situation of the two armies. "There were, of course, many army secrets of which Captain Grivelet never spoke. He, too, was a patriot, you see, as he should be.
"The child knew that what she had observed was important, but just how important, of course, she could not know. "Promptly at ten o'clock that night, after the Padré had gone fast asleep, Marie hastened to the cellar and again called over the telephone. Captain Grivelet was quickly summoned. "'It is the little Marie speaking, she called excitedly. "'My brave child, answered the captain.
Having asked permission to store some of his personal equipment in the Padré's cellar, they thought nothing of his going down there frequently. Now and then Marie was certain she heard him talking to some one down there. "One day, after the Prussians had pushed the French back close to the village this was before the Germans took the village, you understand Captain Grivelet had a talk with Marie.
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