'The rest is soon told. In that supreme moment, as Raoul made ready for the work, the two young people told all their hearts' secret to each other in one long greeting of the eyes, that was at once a "Hail" and a "Farewell."
'The operation was successful.
'All went well with Jeanne, and in two days she was declared practically out of danger.
'But Raoul, unmindful of everything except Jeanne's danger, had not been careful for himself, and had received some of the subtle poison from her throat.'
In the cemetery of Caen, high up where the sun first strikes, can be seen a gravestone with the inscription:
Ci-gît
RAOUL LECONTE,
Décédé le 18 Juillet., 1869
And this is why Sister Gabrielle never married.
CHAPTER XLIII