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"May I tell Marie and Rene?"

"No"

"Then I shall not go How can you think that I would consider my own

safety and leave the that Marie was not in the house

As for Rene, he sat on the single doorstep and whittled pegs on which to

hang his rifle inside the door And as he carved he sang words of his

own to the tune of Tipperary

Inside the little salle a er Jean reassured Sara Lee It was

important--vital--that Rene and Marie should not know far in advance

of the bombardment They were loyal, certainly, but these were his

orders In abundance of tie

"Who is to warn them?"

"Henri has promised, mademoiselle And what he proland"

"He has returned"

Sara Lee's heart, which had been going along an to beat faster Her color caain He had returned, and he had not come to the little house But

then--what could Henri ? Was she

to add to her other sins against Harvey the supre

interested in Henri?