Raynal beckoned him.
"Boy, I am of the opinion that you should none the less seek high and low," he said.
"But, doctor, after your saying she died of want—"
"Misers have been known to die the same way, lying on their treasures. Hush!" he said, laying a finger on his lips, and going out-doors.
[CHAPTER XXXI.]
THE EASY-CHAIR.
Pitou would have pondered more deeply on what the doctor told him, only he spied Catherine running up, with her boy in her arms.
Since there was no doubt that Aunt Angelique had died of privation, the eagerness of the neighbors to help her nephew had lessened. So Catherine arrived most timely. As she might be considered the wife of Pitou, it was her place to attend to his aunt, which the good creature set about doing with the same tenderness she had shown awhile before to her own mother.
Meanwhile, Pitou ran out to arrange for the funeral, which would be at two days' time, as the suddenness of the death compelled retention of the remains forty-eight hours. Religious ceremonies being suppressed for funerals as for marriages, he had only to do business with the sexton and the grave digger, after the mayor.