When he died they treated me in the same way be cause I was his son and bore the same name, Francois Paradis.

With more capital I could have made a good bit of money in this trade-a good bit of money." He seemed a little uncomfortable at having talked so much, and arose to go.

"We shall be coming down in a few weeks and I will try to stay a little longer," he said as he departed.

"It is good to see you again." On the door-step his keen eyes sought in Maria's for something that he might carry into the depth of the green woods whither he was bent; but they found no message.

In her maidenly simplicity she feared to show herself too bold, and very resolutely she kept her glance lowered, like the young girls with richer parents who return from the convents in Chicoutimi trained to look on the world with a superhuman demureness.
Scarcely was gone when the two women and Tit'Be knelt for the evening prayer.