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She disposed of the wash; then she and Sticky Smith gently aroused the crippled bell-master and aided him into the house. The old peasant woman who cooked for the inn had soup ready. The noonday meal in Sainte Lesse had become an extremely simple affair. "Monsieur Steek," said the girl carelessly, "did you ever, as a child, fly toy balloons?" "Sure, Maryette.
"You promise not to go away?" she cautioned him in the simple, first-aid French she employed in speaking to him, and pausing with both arms raised to balance the loaded clothes-basket on her head. "Wee wee!" he assured her with dignity. "Je fume mong peep! Je regard le vieux pêcher. Voo poovay allay, Mademoiselle Maryette."
"Where are you, little sweetheart? Forgive me, I could not wait any longer. I adore you " All at once he discovered her standing motionless in the shadow of the great bell Bayard sprang toward her, eager, ardent, triumphant. "Maryette," he whispered, "I love you! I shall teach you what a lover is " Suddenly he caught a glimpse of her face; the terrible expression in her eyes checked him.
She smiled at him engagingly. "Sure. Anything you want! What’s the trouble, Maryette?" She shrugged her pretty shoulders: "Nothing. It just came into my cowardly head that the path to the lavoir is lonely at sundown. And there are new muleteers in Sainte Lesse. And I must wash my clothes."
As she came past Smith and Glenn, trailing her hoe, the latter now sufficiently proficient in French, said gaily: "Have you heard from Jack again, Mamzelle Maryette?" The girl blushed: "I hear from Djack by every mail," she said, with all the transparent honesty that characterized her. Smith grinned: "Just like that!
"Eternal vigilance is the price of success in peace as well as in war," said Karl, the student, as he aided Maryette to raise her father from the chair. "Vigilance," repeated the girl. "Yes, always now in France. Because always the enemy is listening." ... Her strong young arm around her father, she traversed the garden slowly toward the house.
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