All except Koorotora.

He defied them; he cursed them and his wife in his wicked heathenish fashion, and said that they too should lose the mission through the treachery of some woman, and that the coyote should yet prowl through the ruined walls of the church.

The holy Fathers pitied the wicked man--and built themselves a lovely garden.

Look at that pear-tree! There is all that is left of it!" She turned with a mock heroic gesture, and pointed her fan to the pear-tree.

Garnier lifted his hands in equally simulated wonder.