She came to him and said with a quivering in her voice: "He mocked Louis." "It is well that he should go.

He is a bad man and a bad servant.

I know him too well." "You see, he keeps saying"-- she spoke very slowly--"that he witnessed a will the Seigneur made in favour of Monsieur Fournel.

He thinks us interlopers, I suppose." The Cure put a hand on hers gently.

"There was a time when I felt that Monsieur Fournel was the legal heir to the Seigneury, for Monsieur de la Riviere had told me there was such a will; but since then I have changed my mind.