"Gaos"-- again that name, engraved upon one of the slabs erected in memory of those who die at sea.
She read this inscription: "To the Memory of GAOS, JEAN-LOUIS, Aged 24 years; seaman on board the _Marguerite_.

Disappeared off Iceland, August 3d, 1877.

May he rest in peace!" Iceland--always Iceland! All over the porch were wooden slabs bearing the names of dead sailors.

It was the place reserved for the shipwrecked of Pors-Even.

Filled with a dark foreboding she was sorry to have gone there.
In Paimpol church she had seen many such inscriptions; but in this village the empty tomb of the Iceland fishers seemed more sad because so lone and humble.