Marie had not known how to answer him.

She had therefore embraced him closely, and a tear fell upon his face.

'Ah,' he said, 'I know somebody is coming to take you away.

Will not papa help you ?' She had not spoken; but for the moment she had taken courage, and had resolved that she would help herself.
At length the day was there on which Adrian Urmand was to come.

It was his purpose to travel by Mulhouse and Remiremont, and Michel Voss drove over to the latter town to fetch him.