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In about half an hour the two gendarmes arrived. Brigadier Senateur was very tall and thin, and Gendarme Lenient short and fat. Lecacheur made them sit down, and told them the affair, and then they went and saw the scene of the theft, in order to verify the fact that the hutch had been broken open, and to collect all the proofs they could.
This Polyte was a laborer, who had been employed on the farm for a few days, and who had been dismissed by Lecacheur for an insolent answer. He was an old soldier, and was supposed to have retained his habits of marauding and debauchery, from his campaigns in Africa.
When his head appeared at the brink I asked: "'Well? as if I expected he had a message from the drowned woman. "We both got on the stone slab at the edge of the well and from opposite sides we began to haul up the body. "Mother Lecacheur and Celeste watched us from a distance, concealed from view behind the wall of the house.
"She was an old, wrinkled, and austere rustic, who always seemed to yield to the pressure of new customs with a kind of contempt. "It was the month of May: the spreading apple-trees covered the court with a whirling shower of blossoms which rained unceasingly both upon people and upon the grass. "I said: "'Well, Madame Lecacheur, have you a room for me?
The cure, who had been consulted by Madame Lecacheur, responded: "'She is a heretic, but God does not wish the death of the sinner, and I believe her to be a person of pure morals. "These words, 'atheist, 'heretic, words which no one can precisely define, threw doubts into some minds.
When his head appeared over the brink, I asked: "'What is it? as though I only expected that he would tell me what he had discovered at the bottom. "We both got on to the stone slab at the edge of the well, and, face to face, hoisted the body. "Mother Lecacheur and Celeste watched us from a distance, concealed behind the wall of the house.
"Whenever I caught sight of one of these individuals in a hotel I fled like the birds who see a scarecrow in a field. "This woman, however, appeared so very singular that she did not displease me. "Madame Lecacheur, hostile by instinct to everything that was not rustic, felt in her narrow soul a kind of hatred for the ecstatic declarations of the old maid.
We waited for her at table, but she did not appear. At length, Mother Lecacheur went to her room. The English-woman had gone out. She must have set out at break of day, as she was wont to do, in order to see the sun rise. "Nobody seemed astonished at this and we began to eat in silence. "The weather was hot, very hot, one of those still sultry days when not a leaf stirs.
A week later, as the affair had made much stir, Lecacheur, on going into the Mairie to consult the school-master, was told that the shepherd Severin had been waiting for him for more than an hour, and he found him sitting on a chair in a corner, with his stick between his legs.
At which the gendarme smiled and nodded three times. Then Madame Lecacheur came to them, and very quietly, with all a peasant's cunning, questioned the brigadier in her turn.
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