But Madame had not yet retired to her bed.

The two men, whose voices reached her, saw her from time to time moving restlessly to and fro between the road and the little encampment.

Presently she came and stood over them.
"He led His people out of the wilderness," La Tribe was saying; "out of the trouble of Paris, out of the trouble of Angers, and always, always southward.

If you do not in this, Monsieur, see His finger--" "And Angers ?" Tignonville struck in, with a faint sneer.

"Has He led that out of trouble?
A day or two ago you would risk all to save it, my friend.