"I admit that I did very wrong, but she had got over that. M. Yvon told me so when he came out into the garden. What happened afterward to upset her so again?"
"Alas! the one great sorrow of her life has been recalled to her remembrance more vividly than ever!"
"You refer to her poor mother's death, of course."
"Yes, and she has just been talking to M. Yvon about it. You can judge how painful the conversation must have been to him."
"What do you mean?" cried Segoffin, in alarm. "Is it possible that Mlle. Sabine knows that terrible secret?"
"No, thank Heaven! she does not, and I sincerely hope she never will."
"I do not understand you then, Suzanne."
"This is what caused all the trouble," said the housekeeper, drawing a paper from her pocket.
"What is that?"
"The morning paper. It contains further details in relation to that famous privateer, Captain l'Endurci. Listen to what it says, and you will then understand the situation."