Did you see Mlle.

Celie's eyes and face when first she saw that sack?
Ah! she understood! They meant to give her a dose of morphia, and, as soon as she became unconscious, they were going perhaps to take some terrible precaution--" Hanaud paused for a second.

"I only say perhaps as to that.

But certainly they were going to sew her up in that sack, row her well out across the lake, fix a weight to her feet, and drop her quietly overboard.

She was to wear everything which she had brought with her to the house.Mlle.