14/15 It's four days' walk for me and the cattle to go and come, but I shall take back a man to cut the trees." "Why not send him by the new railroad ?" "It does not stop at Turrifs." "Yes; they stop at the cross-roads now, not more than three miles from Turrifs, There's a new station, and an Englishman set to keep it. I've just brought this sack of flour from there. M.Didier had it come by the cars." "When do they pass to St.Hennon's ?" asked Saul meditatively,--"But anyway, the Englishman wouldn't like to take in a coffin." "They pass some time in the night; and he must take it in if you write on it where it's going. It's not his business to say what the cars will take, if you pay." "Well," said Saul. "Good-day. |