At last, as she went off, she promised that she would make Sister Claire des Anges hasten her return should she happen to meet her; and she had not gone twenty yards when she turned round and waved her arm to call attention to her colleague, who with discreet short steps was coming back alone.
Leaning out of the window, Sister Hyacinthe kept on calling to her, "Make haste, make haste! Well, and where is Father Massias ?" "He isn't there." "What! not there ?" "No.

I went as fast as I could, but with all these people about it was not possible to get there quickly.

When I reached the carriage Father Massias had already alighted, and gone out of the station, no doubt." She thereupon explained, that according to what she had heard, Father Massias and the priest of Sainte-Radegonde had some appointment together.
In other years the national pilgrimage halted at Poitiers for four-and-twenty hours, and after those who were ill had been placed in the town hospital the others went in procession to Sainte-Radegonde.* That year, however, there was some obstacle to this course being followed, so the train was going straight on to Lourdes; and Father Massias was certainly with his friend the priest, talking with him on some matter of importance.
* The church of Sainte-Radegonde, built by the saint of that name in the sixth century, is famous throughout Poitou.

In the crypt between the tombs of Ste.

Agnes and St.Disciole is that of Ste.
Radegonde herself, but it now only contains some particles of her remains, as the greater portion was burnt by the Huguenots in 1562.