“It is a long way, so! But I am very scare for her as she lie here all day. I will carry her very tender—on the railway car—on the big boat. The good Sainte Anne is everywhere, too. She will help.”
“If faith can move mountains it ought to heal easily one poor, little toddlekins,” muttered Farr.
A new doctor came the next day, a breezy young man, a talkative and frank young man, the assistant of the over-worked city physician, whose municipal duties had obliged him to take on helpers.
“I shall ask him, hey—about the shrine?” whispered Etienne to Farr while the doctor was examining the child.
“Yes; he'll be more patient with you than with me.”
“And do you think that pretty soon she can go on the railway if I be very careful, good docteur?” asked the old man, wistfully, apologetically.
“Go where?”
“On the pilgrimage to the shrine of the good Sainte Anne in the Canada country.”
“Don't you realize what this case is?” demanded the young physician.
“He have not say—he hurry in, he hurry out.”