The old man had not heard from her, and he seldom visited at the Manor Cartier or saw his grand-daughter.

His own career of late years had been marked by long sojourns in Quebec, Montreal and even New York; yet he always came back to St.Saviour's when he was penniless, and was there started afresh by Jean Jacques.

Some said that Carmen had gone back to Spain, but others discredited that, for, if she had done so, certainly old Sebastian Dolores would have gone also.

Others continued to insist that she had gone off with a man; but there was George Masson at Laplatte living alone, and never going twenty miles away from home, and he was the only person under suspicion.

Others again averred that since her flight Carmen had become a loose woman in Montreal; but the New Cure came down on that with a blow which no one was tempted to invite again.
M.Savry's method of punishing was of a kind to make men shrink.