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Trace of the lost 'Thanase had brought him at length to this point. The word of a fellow-tramp, pledged on the honor of his guild, gave assurance that thus far the wanted man had come in strength and hope but more than a month before. The necessity of moving on presently carried Bonaventure aimlessly into the city along the banks of the New Canal.
Step back. Now the little bride steady! Zoséphine, sa marque. She turns; see her, everybody; see her! brown and pretty as a doe! They are kissing her. Hail, Madame 'Thanase! "Make way, make way!" The man and wife come forth. Ah!
Day was fully come when Chaouache rose and stepped out upon his galérie. He had thought he could venture to sleep in bed such a night; and, sure enough, here morning came, and there had been no intrusion. 'Thanase, too, was up. It was raining and blowing still. Across the prairie, as far as the eye could reach, not a movement of human life could be seen.
"Poor 'Thanase!" said the youths and maidens. And now the war came to an end. Bonaventure was glad. 'Thanase was expected home, but let him come. If the absent soldier knew what the young folks at the balls knew, he would not make haste in his return. And he did not, as it seemed.
One of the party that made up the game with 'Thanase was the fellow whom you may remember as having brought that first news of 'Thanase from camp to Carancro, and whom Zoséphine had discredited. The young husband had never liked him since. But, as I say, 'Thanase was in high spirits.
"Does she know that Bonaventure, too, has come back?" the young maidens whisper, one to another; for the news was afloat. "Oh, yes, of course; some one had to let it slip. But if it makes any difference, she is only brighter and prettier than before. I tell you it seems strange, but I believe, now, she never cared for anybody but 'Thanase.
I have been thinking to-night of all you have told me of all you said that day in the garden, and I want to go and find 'Thanase." "My boy," said the priest, drawing the lad with gentle force to his bosom, "my little old man, does this mean that you have come to the end of all self-service? that self is never going to be spelt with a capital S any more? Will it be that way if I let you go?"
Up, bleeding old man bang! bang! Ha, ha, ora! that finishes ora! 'Twas the boy saved your life with that last shot, Sosthène, and the boy the youth is 'Thanase. He has not stopped to talk; he and his father are catching the horses of the dead and dying jayhawkers. Now bind up Sosthène's head, and now 'Thanase's hip. Now strip the dead beasts, and take the dead men's weapons, boots, and spurs.
But presently, in one of those dens called sailors' boarding-houses, somewhere down on the water-front near the Mint, he was brought face to face with a stranger whose manner seemed to offer the reverse proposition. Of him the youth asked questions and got answers. 'Thanase Beausoleil still lived, far beyond seas. How? why?
Sometimes she looked forth with an anxious eye, when a colt was to be broken for the saddle; for as its legs were untied, and it sprang to its feet with 'Thanase in the saddle, and the blindfold was removed from its eyes, the strain on the young wife's nerves was as much as was good, to see the creature's tremendous leaps in air and not tremble for its superb, unmovable rider.
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