What would she say when she learned on her arrival in England that Victor has all this time been lying broken down and in suffering in Paris ?" To this question Harry, for a long time, could give no answer.

At last he said, "I have been thinking it over, Jeanne, and I feel that we have no right to take Marie away without her knowing the truth about Victor.

His misfortunes have come upon him because he would stop in Paris to watch over her.

I feel now that she has the right, if she chooses, of stopping in Paris to look after him." "Oh, Harry, you would never think of our going away and leaving her!" "I don't know, Jeanne, if it would not be best.

She could stay in the disguise of a peasant girl with Jacques and his wife; they would give out that she was Victor's sister who had come to nurse him.