_He_ had told Monsieur Thompson all about it.

They were very kind to me at first, but they tried----" She was weeping.
"What did they try to do ?" asked the priest.
"They tried to make me believe he is insane." She succeeded in passing her handkerchief up under her veil.
"And I suppose then your poor mother grew angry, eh ?" "Yes; and they became much more so, and said if we did not write, or send a writing, to _him_, within twenty-four hours, breaking the----" "Engagement," said Pere Jerome.
"They would give him up to the Government.

Oh, Pere Jerome, what shall I do?
It is killing my mother!" She bowed her head and sobbed.
"Where is your mother now ?" "She has gone to see Monsieur Jean Thompson.

She says she has a plan that will match them all.

I do not know what it is.