Here at least we have shelter, and still some sous for bread.

Jeanne, my beloved, you must make up your mind to leave me again--alone and unhindered you might find your way back in safety.' "'I will never leave you,' said Jeanne.

'We will die together, if it must be so.

The boys are safe--my father and mother and Eliane will care for them.

I will never leave you.' "And Monsieur said no more; but in his own mind I could see that he thought himself fast dying, that want of comforts and nourishment much longer would exhaust his little strength, and that his poor Jeanne would, in the end, be forced to attempt the journey back alone.