Her heart was kind.
"Now!" said Jean Jacques at last, as the Clerk of the Court's eyes reached the end of the last page.

"Now, speak! It is--it is my Zoe ?" "It is our Zoe," answered M.Fille.
"Figure de Christ, what do you wait for--she is not dead ?" exclaimed Jean Jacques with a courage which made him set his feet squarely.
The Clerk of the Court shook his head and began.

"She is alive.
Madame Poucette's sister saw her by chance.

Zoe was on her way up the Saskatchewan River to the Peace River country with her husband.

Her husband's health was bad.