The shuddering which was not of the snow and the cold, passed, but his heart was ice.

The abandoned town over which Germans and French had fought oppressed him like a nightmare.
What had become of Julie?
Why had Philip asked her to meet him at such a place?
There was the hospital, but it was in the plain below, where lights now shone faintly through the heavy gray air and the driving snow.
Surely Lannes could not have made any mistake! John had learned to trust his judgment thoroughly and Philip, too, knew the country so well.

If he had sent for Julie to come to Chastel he must have had a good reason for it, although the snow was bound to delay the coming of the _Arrow_ to meet her.

If she had reached Chastel she would remain there, and not go to the hospital in the plain below.

She trusted her brother as implicitly as John did.
John, taking thought with himself, concluded that she must be now in the village.