"Whence come you, then?"
"From La Roque."
"No, I have been from home these fourteen days."
"Then do not say things are not ill with you till you have been home," remarked the peasant dryly.
"What has happened?" asked Jean, his blood standing still with alarm.
"The wolves have been hunting!"
"What wolves?"
"The red. Le Gros Guillem."
"He has been to Ste. Soure?"