consequence, and much respected by Yves de Cornault, and when she
proposed to Anne to go with her to Ste. Barbe no one could
object, and even the chaplain declared himself in favour of the
pilgrimage. So Anne set out for Ste. Barbe, and there for the
first time she talked with Herve de Lanrivain. He had come once
or twice to Kerfol with his father, but she had never before
exchanged a dozen words with him. They did not talk for more
than five minutes now: it was under the chestnuts, as the
procession was coming out of the chapel. He said: "I pity you,"
and she was surprised, for she had not supposed that any one
thought her an object of pity. He added: "Call for me when you
need me," and she smiled a little, but was glad afterward, and
thought often of the meeting.

She confessed to having seen him three times afterward: not more.
How or where she would not say--one had the impression that she
feared to implicate some one. Their meetings had been rare and
brief; and at the last he had told her that he was starting the
next day for a foreign country, on a mission which was not
without peril and might keep him for many months absent. He
asked her for a remembrance, and she had none to give him but the
collar about the little dog's neck. She was sorry afterward that
she had given it, but he was so unhappy at going that she had not
had the courage to refuse.

Her husband was away at the time. When he returned a few days
later he picked up the little dog to pet it, and noticed that its
collar was missing. His wife told him that the dog had lost it
in the undergrowth of the park, and that she and her maids had
hunted a whole day for it. It was true, she explained to the