"It's a feast," said he.
"About as good as baching, anyhow," joined Stewart.
"Hush!"
"How do you like it?"
"Didn't I say hush? That should be sufficient!" Agnes took a seat and surveyed the table carefully to see that all was there. Her father was pious. He blessed the table, and when this was over, fell to eating with his knife.
"By the way," cried Baptiste near the end of the meal. "Did you hear the news?"
"What news," they asked in chorus.
"The man dead in the well."
"Is that so!" they exclaimed, shocked.
He then told them in detail all about the finding of the body, and the opinion that it was a suicide. They listened with the usual awe and curiosity. But Jean Baptiste did not voice his suspicions, or tell them anything he knew. At a later hour he took his leave.