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"That's it," he said, relieved, for both of them had harbored a lingering fear that these places existed only in the childish mind of the blue-eyed old weaver. "Melotte was right," he added. "Wait a minute I'll let you look. You can see the new road and people working on it and wait a minute I can see a little flag on one house." There was no doubt about it.
He could see her, orphaned and homeless, slaving under the menacing shadow of a German officer who sprawled and lorded it in the poor home of this Blondel close by the new road. Here he climb to drop ze grapes down my neck. Bad boy! Strange, how that particular phrase of hers singled itself out and stuck in his memory. "So now you are so clevaire," he half heard old Melotte saying to Archer.
Tom looked at the map, as old Melotte poised his skinny finger above it and peered eagerly up into his face from the depths of his scraggly white hair. It was little enough Tom knew about military affairs and he thought that this lonesome old weaver was in his dotage.
They wondered if he were altogether sane. "Nuzzing can zey hide from Melotte," he went on. "Far south, near Basel, zere lives my comrade Blondel. To him must you show your button yess. In Norne he lives." "We'll write that down," said Tom. "Nuzzing you write down," the old man said sharply, clutching Tom's arm. "In your brain where you are so clevaire zere you write it. So!
They were clambering up the hillside again, for not all old Melotte's hospitable urging could induce Tom to remain in the hut until daylight. He would have liked to take along the rough sketch which the old man had made, but this Melotte had strenuously opposed, saying that no maps should be carried by strangers in Germany.
Melotte to find it again in the autumn a great triumph both of calculation and of photographic observation. This satellite has never been seen, and has been photographed only at Greenwich, Heidelberg, and the Lick Observatory. Greenwich Observatory has been here selected for tracing the progress of accurate measurement.
They finally located it on the outskirts of the town and recognized it by the billet flag which Melotte had described to them. It was the success of their policy of boldness, together with something which Madame Blondel told him, which prompted Tom to undertake the impudent and daring enterprise which was later to make him famous on the western front.
You are not so clevaire as Melotte. Now I will show you how you shall find Mam'selle," he went on with a sly wink. Emptying some wool out of a paper bag, he pressed the wrinkles from the bag with his trembling old hand and bending over the rough table close to the lantern, he drew a map somewhat similar to, though less complete than, the one given here.
There is nothing like a map to show one "where he is at," to quote Archer's phrase, and the boys followed with great interest as Melotte penciled the course of the Rhine and the places which he wished to emphasize in the southern part of Alsace. "Here at Norne lives my comrade, Blondel," he said. "Two years we work togezzer at Passake you know? In ze great silk mills."
So Tom had to content himself with the old man's rather rambling directions. Several things remained indelibly impressed on his mind. Old Melotte had told him that upon the western bank of the Rhine about fifteen miles above the Swiss border was an old gray castle with three turrets, and that directly opposite this and not far from the Alsatian bank was the little village of Norne.
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