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The chauffeur of their car, after a nod from Lafrane, started again. They passed the wagon, which was already trundling down the road. This cot was the last one at which Ruth saw anybody during that ride. For when they reached the hut of Nicko, the chocolate peddler, his place was likewise deserted. There were no neighboring houses. Lafrane got out at Nicko's cottage and searched the premises.
Of course," she added, looking at the American girl curiously now, "there is something else upon the paper. His message to his mother is not a line. You understand, do you not? Monsieur Lafrane, of course " "Monsieur Lafrane has never told me a word," Ruth hastened to say. "I only suspected before to-day that Bubu carried messages back and forth across the lines."
Now and then one of the American military police walked beside a wagon, as though he had been sent on with the movers to make sure that they kept moving. The girl asked M. Lafrane nothing about this exodus. Perhaps he knew no more the reason for it than Ruth did.
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