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Maria and Tit'Sebe fell upon their knees; Tit'Be ran to shut the door, then also knelt. The priest put off the heavy fur coat and the cap white with snow drawn down to his eyes, and instantly approached the sick-bed as heaven's envoy bringing pardon and peace. Ah! the assurance, the comfort of the divine promise which dispels the awful mists of death!
The house trembled from base to chimneytop, and swayed on its foundation in such a fashion that the inmates, feeling the onslaught, hearing the roar and shriek of the foe, were almost as sensible of the terrors of the storm as though they were exposed to it; lacking the consciousness of safe retreat that belongs to those who are sheltered by strong walls of stone. Tit'Sebe cast his eyes about.
Both Eutrope and Chapdelaine hastened to avow their trust in him. "There is no doubt whatever that Tit'Sebe can make people well. He was never through the schools, but he knows how to cure. You heard of Nazaire Gaudreau who fell from the top of a barn and broke his back.
Not long after the coming of day the wind rose, and soon was sounding hoarsely about the house. "It is from the nor'west; there will be a blow," said Tit'Sebe. Maria looked toward the window and sighed. "Only two days ago snow fell, and now it will be raised and drift. The roads were heavy enough before; father and the cure are going to have trouble getting through."
Half an hour went by; after casting his eyes toward the window Chapdelaine arose hurriedly, saying. "I am going to put the horse in." Tit'Sebe nodded. "That is well; you had better harness; it is near day." "Yes. I am going to put the horse in," Chapdelaine repeated.
It was not so to be; the moaning ceased not, but toward evening it died away to sighing, continual and profound nature's protest against a burden too heavy to be borne, or the slow inroad of death-dealing poison. About midnight came Eutrope Gagnon, bringing Tit'Sebe the bone-setter. He was a little, thin, sad-faced man with very kind eyes.
Eutrope's face was very grave, and he shook his head as he declared: "Neither have I any faith in doctors. Now if we had only thought of fetching a bone-setter such a man as Tit'Sebe of St. Felicien ..." Every face was turned to him and the tears ceased flowing. "Tit'Sebe!" exclaimed Maria. "And you think he could help in a case like this?"
The doctors came to see him, and the best they could do was to give the Latin name for his hurt and say that he was going to die. Then they went and fetched Tit'Sebe, and Tit'Sebe cured him." Every one of them knew the healer's repute and hope sprang up again in their hearts. "Tit'Sebe is a first-rate man, and a man who knows how to make sick people well. Moreover he is not greedy for money.
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