"No one says they distrust you; they only say they don't trust any one else."
"I tell you I must be at Souday in ten minutes, and when Jean Oullier says 'I must,' it is because it must be done. If you can delay the soldiers half an hour that's all I want."
"Jean Oullier! Jean Oullier!"
"What?"
"Suppose I can't make the gars wait for the soldiers in the open?"
"Order them in the name of the good God."
"If it were you who ordered them they would obey; but me-- Besides, there's Joseph Picaut among them, and you know Joseph Picaut will only do as he chooses."
"But if I don't go to Souday I have no one to send."
"Let me go, Monsieur Jean Oullier," said a voice from the earth.
"Who spoke?" said the wolf-keeper.