Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, May 13, 1894, Page 18

DAILY BEE SUNDAY, MAY 13, A caner at the breast; and yet others flat on | were polsed the three churches that the [ tone, “faithful Viregin, Virgin 1894 -TWENTY PAGES. oncelved | that had overwhetmed him after his mother's : ; i their backs, with their saa’ eves turned up- | shrill voice of Bernadetts had caused to | without sint” | death, ‘ / | y ol i il ward, that seemed to tell the story of in- | spring up from the rock in praise of the | And exhausted she stopped, while, as her | “Ah, dear doctor, ho d ] terlor hhumnm as large as a child’s head I('uly Virgin, Below first came the Church | lips still moved In silent prayer, she gazed | you." of, how glad I am to see 3 that obstructed thefr vital organs. On they | of the Rosary, confined and round, half built | rapturously at Pierre. Thinking she wished | They embraced with de came, and still more horfble ones came, too, | In the rock, at the end of the esplanade, held | to say something to him, he leancd forward. | looking At the showy locks, Tfl'\."','.'."'."}, :,'."; : each one Increasing the thrill of horror in | up by immense arms, a colossal inclined | Db you want me to remain here, at your | and sad aspect of the old mam, Plorre re- o the spectator. A child ot barely 20 years, | plain rising gradually up to the crypt. It | disposal, to take you presently to the pool?” | membored the implacable sorrow that had : ‘ o with a flattened hoad Iike a toad, had such [ was a tremendous work. A whole quarry | When she understood she refused by shak- | aged this man. But a few years had passed ‘ an enormous goltre that it hung to her waist | of stones had been cut and hewn. Arches | INE 'H'I'Ih-"fld ien she sald fovorishly Ince they parted, and he found him struck “No: I do not wished to be bathed this like the bib of an apron. A blind woman [ as high as naves of a church, two avenues down by fate, . walked on, her head erect and straight, her | rising in a gigantic circle, so that the pomp | Morning. It seems to me one must be =0 | “You did not know that I was in Lourdes, face pale as marble, with two holes for eyes, | of processfons might be uninterrupted and | WOrthy, o pure, so holy, before trying the | did yon? I no longer write lotters, it is Y E I’V[ I E' Z o A inflamed and bleeding, two 1iving sores from | that the carriage of a little sick child might [ miracie! Ail this morning I wish to pray [ true: [ live in the land of the departed I ! > which ran matter. X crasy old woman, im= | Fénch Goul without trouble, . Only the dcor | fOF It With clasped hands. 1 want to pray— | Tears came-to his eyes, and he continted 7 becile, with her noss eaten away, uttered a | of the crypt, the subterraneous church, was | Pray with all my streng:f, all my soul!" In a broken v g fearful laugh from her black and toothless | visible underneath the Church of the Rosar: She choked, then added “Here, here, sit’ down on this bench, 1t g SI‘LO\D D“ [ — O S— mouth, and suddeply an epileptic fell into { whose flagged roof, with its many paths, c 0 not return to fetch me before 11 | Will give me such pleasure to be once more et e e DIARIA Al EGPY RIGNT U THO Y il convulsions, foatifig in his litter, but the | tinued the incline. “inally the basilica clock. Then I will go back to the hospi | a8 of old, with you." i ¥ _;‘":,}1_";“_"_“’7”1,2‘?,!5‘“‘!..‘%_.“.“;...‘,'“.,' procession did not stop, but continued its | sprang up, rather fine and fragile, too new, | tal. T will not stir from here.” The priest also felt a sob choking him., B S e o feverish march toward the grotto, as though | too white, with a meagre style of ornamental | But Plerre did not go away, but stayed | He could do nothing, but only murmur, “Oh, my dear doctor, my old friend, I pity chatting together and arranging their | blown there by & hurricane. Renaissance, cut In the rock of Massablelle | near her. He knelt for a moment RS, have given me twenty-three invalids, so we tres BYNO OF PRECEDING CHAPT 5 1 10 he Chapter I.—The apening scene of “Lourdes” 18 | shall be obliged to lay mattresses down on | little things. Already Elise Rouquet, Who | o litter bearors, the priests and even the | llke a prayer, a fiight of a pure dove. ~The | longed to be ablo toc to pray with that [ ¥ With all my heart and soul.” In ) crowied thifd-cinie car ot the Swhiie | the floor.” AR, nad for. | a8 alfo close to Marle on the other r;‘:h‘, tnvallds themsolyew were singing a canticle, | Pointed spiré on the top of the gigantic | burning faith to ask God to hoal this poor | 1t Was a tale of disastor, the shipwreck of By o Yonrdee oAt T ae ot & Not Elsenticre, Sister Hyacinthe, who had fol- | was unfastening her basket to get out a clean | tno compline of Fernadette, and moved along | &rches stcod out in the horizon like the | Il child, whom he loved with a brother's | & Hfe. Dr. Chassafgne and his daughter, B Lt o tha Journey very | lowed the ladies after leaving Sister St. | scarf, and was greatly annoyed becauss there | jn the midst of aves, the push carts, the lit. | Small, _stralght flame = of a = candle | tendornoss. Sinco he had reashed the grutto, | Morgurelte, a big, lovely girl of 2. had uncomfortable, that the traln Starfs. “ek | Francols and Sister Claire des Anges to | was no looking glass. In less than ten min- | ioeg"ha padestrians, all coming down the in- | /0 that endless — billow of valleys | however, he had been overconte Ty a strang brought Mme. Chassalgne, the wi the are propped \p on the benches or stretched on | gottle themselves in a small room near by | utes every bed was occupled, so that when | (iniq wireot 1ike! vollen stroam that had | nd mountains. Beside the thick [ uneasiness, like a dull decision, that spoiled | 4early loved mother, whose health was not mattresses. The car loolks lie n hospital ward, | ¢pat had been turned into a linen room, now | La Grivotte appeared, half carrled between | juoinowad fts hm“w’““.:t,‘ was floating along | Yerdure of tha hill of the Calvary the little | tho pious fervor of his prayer. Iie Yonged | B00d, to Carte where after a fortnight i orn of the Axsumption in eacl comparts 2 ] ‘ with Bisters of the Assumption in kach SOMBES - Jifted up the quilts and examined the bed | Sister Hyacinthe and Sister Claire des | oy ™0 or o 10RE A 6" corner of the | BPITe possossed a fragifity, a candid look of | to believe. All night he had hoped that | She felt much better, planning excursions, ment_aoting s hurses. The Wi Clonad AR Tha air in very foul. Am ng the plil- | linen. And she reassured Mme. Desagneaux: | Anges, they were obliged to commence 10 | puq' St Joseph, neur the Platen de Ia Mor- | Childish faith that made one think of the | beltef would again flourish in his soul, ljke | Whon one morning suddenly she was found ferimin f3 Mario 0 Gueriaint, @ palldly beatital | Ok, the beds are well made and very clean. | put the mattresses on the floor. Jasse, & family G0 sxonrsionists. people just | Httle white arm, of the poor little thin hand | 8 lovely flower of ignorance and ccedulity, [ 403d In her bed. Crushed by the torrible youni woman’ who, for' years has d, (6 Ne, It | one can_percelve the handiwork of the Sisters | ‘Hora s one,” called Mme. Desagneaux. | youite it u i1 (6 SR BEOPLE BUAL 1 of that emaclated girl who had pointed to | the moment e Knelt on culous ground. | blow, the fatlier and daughter scomed stupe- father and the Abbe Plerre Froment, \Y.‘,.m..i'.]... ; of St. Fral, But the reserve nmunw.«-.‘. She will be all right in this spot, away from | oh ehe sidewalk' in profound amazement, | Beaven in a crisis of her human misery. Be- ":“I jnr;xn. te all this decoration, this statue ‘l\rv_l b !!w ha! hness of destiny. The doe- PO e O " sieotcher rer iaer 1ya: | are Just at hand and it madame will lend me | the draught of the door They Tooked 1Hke e “ootmaois th father | hind the basilic there was only the dwelling Ix A LS, WAILG I cthe: falue Tglitar tiier | 190 BUGIBAUY. Shotn Biwetris; SHAU astRilly cintho 18 In charge, Other pllerims in - | a hand we might without waiting put down a |~ Seven mattrosses were soon added to the | 4y mother well dressed, the two fine looking | Of (he fathers—a square, clumisy building— | con¢ hetween the recoptaco for boads, | POt In the cemetory at Lourdes, where his partment are Mme: Vincent, who it dylog 1aby to be cured at (he miraoulous g W | " Mine, wh " yeney e o Lourios € | “Certainly!” cried the young woman, car- | wag dificult to move about easily, but by in-the midst of a | flled with o crowd of cllents, and tho great [ PArents wore already burled, He wished to 3 o gl - spreading vallcy, came the episcopal palace. | PUIbit of stone from which the Assumption- | Nave the body of his wife placed there, bo- e G viin 1 st e deaiiated s | ried away with the iden of fetching inmai- | fujdng caro (o' follow the narrow paths the “:lylu‘;;lx“ununlr:;‘:'.h’:\rfi::-‘.ullum\:::: amuse Lhr M- | And_ the threo ' ehurches ghistened in the | {8t Fatlior was utlering loud aves, he o side the vacant grave that ho soon ex- nd; b th rmirly A § tresses In her frail and pretty arms. Mme. | jii people could be reached. Each of these | g i, e Te BRIt SRBEEE O o ber, | morning sunlight, the golden rain bathed the | £ quictude and unrest. Was his soul | Pected himself t upy. He stopped on Iyeee Charlemagne. who hag Iost the use of his A Sy o o o ! J1 o sy y onme, U568 "0t | de Jonauiere was obliged to qulet her. Kept er own parcol, box oF valise, and there | SRS L0 1 BIE (CHOS B8 (IS DO 4 entire countryside, while:the ringing sound parehed "to. such @ state? Could no divine | there & week with Marsaret, when ono \o; { row here botween the beds.” pile that filled the central passageway. It | quichitors n light eolored gowns, with the | AMd much farther off = o mattress maker, 1 4 4 el . umption, ana Biiza Reuquet. with her face By and by; there is no hurry. Wait | were soon grouped about the improvised | gi. i SRAE Ll g of the bells seemed, in truth, to be the _ ate it with innocence anpg | DIEDt the latter was taken with a chill, frightfully disfigured by a lupus. Siater H until our invalids are here. I do not care | souches a perfect heap of old duds, actual rags [ d1°8 Of bygone yours, lke one of those hospl-| aoryal vibration of light, the chanted awak- | Mako it like the soul of a little child, who | Went to bed and was dead the next day be- tals that one reads of, that I8 emptied out after some horrible epidemic. The two girls turned pale, the father and mother wero ‘htost | fore her distracted father could even tell ening of this new born and glorious day. glve themselves wholly to the end? As his distraction con- | WNAt Was the matter with her. The man cinthio tells stories of the miraculous cures o€ | yyoh for this ward, It is so hard to venti- | panging down over the sheets and quilts BLYa As they crossed the Place of the Rosary | Caress of the le feoted by Lourdes, and s Interrupted by what t T ity T b the i strugsies of an un- | late. Last year I had the ward of St. | gne might have thought it a strange engamp- tinued, he r known passenger. Rosalie, on the first floor. However, we may | jyant, organized in great haste after some Plerre and Marie merely glanced at the es- cognized the priest in ehe pul- | WVho formerly was the happiest, helped and Chaptar 11 The | Atibe I"lhvw”f‘\\‘]" Into o» | as_well organize ourselves, all the same.” tFFIbIe ‘f;lm,mp,m auch as an incendiary, Imr‘nyvrl-svrm‘vk at the ,.u:m 1"'| n(m‘- ]\[lllnlnn planade, the gamlen, with its long center | PIt to be Father Massais. He had ]..m adored by those two dear creatures, whose D e bt e "N b1t and who was | More lady helpers in the hospital arrived, | g earthquake that lad thrown hundreds of ;m;v:'\\-)‘;{‘f‘v:‘n|':"-”"r.lv'r-|):r‘:-(.|l'flf-ku"(w':-(r:lli;r grass piot, bordered on cither side by two | hm before, and his trouble was incroased by | 2fection had kept him heart whole, was Killed by an explosion In his laboratory. Plerre's | a busy hive of working boes, keen to be put | wounded and wretched ones into the street. | ool oo YT Rt aual parallel paths that go as far as the new somber ardor, his thin face, picreing eyes, | "OW NOthIng but an old man, lost and lonely, Taothr thintimg the cnemist's death to o o | to work., They were almost a cause for con- | Mmt do Jonquiere walked up and down the | directly In their faces. Great God! so much | iqgo, There, turning toward the basilica, | large eloquent mouth, ~that threatened | fFOZen by solitude. Al the oy of his lifa o ugliness, so much filth, so much suffering! | grunds the was gone statue of the great Virghi | heaven in order to make It come down. to wvled the peasants breaking punishment for his sclentific res ches, dedic | fugjon, this large number of sick nur Eatod the boy to the priesthood. Living noxt 2 ward saying to all: v asible unde 1ot atorios or. tha Sttt " o' et vine moxt | GG om o highest cirolon of society, s | A48 IE 10 B o ikgron, a0 not got ex- | Was It bossible unier this glorlous sun, UNs | Growned. As they passed tn all (he tnvalids | earth " Andus ho Tooked at him, surprisod [ 0008 O (he ronds, when he s theie o a iy, Tt Marle de. Gusrgnint | well as from the middle classes, and’ all | oiead. Try to sleep a little.” vast sky of light and oy, under which the | Siode tho wign of the cross. On went the | t his own difference in fecling, ho . prr. es and Jehildren, barefooted, fotching ek, his T, Lt Magle, 0 QU | N mtea with ‘& fervant soat not unmised ( lted Try to sleep & WURE L e her. | Gave ran sparkiing, “whiore the morains | foarful brocossion, Kok forward. carried | Ccived at the'foot of the puipit Kather - | them thelr dinmers, o refuised to go aw e ith el et tuey’ grew’ dp. Then | With ‘pride, There were moro than 200 of | But sho faited to aviet Sheit 438 SWE,UEEC | breeses watted only.the pure perfume of the | away by its canticle, passing by nature in ail | ade in close communication with the Baron | ffo Loriss and had glven up everytiing ch bafid Al e doctors‘and resuited “in } them, and cach ko Al ,“;h"",'(')‘"y potered | placed under her orders, increased by their mountains| her brightness. Undor the glorious sky, | Suire. Tho lum-nlr seemed perplexed. Ho | porky 1S LEAva Wierar A TEHCEL T aarly . tol y#is, Aw she €0 over o o 3 of Our Lady b Szl ks 5 ) Fhtie L g ended, however, by approving. i eside the grave where his wife and ol Rearly toiai paralysls ‘As e Could never be | tho service of the Hospitality of Our Lady of | BT M (0o mpationce, 1t was [ As Plerre at the head of the procession { among the mountain of purple and gold, | FCEL MWerEr by approving with o com- | it el fast steon LAEGL mtinued his d. Abbe Judaine udies and be- | galyation, had to make a donation so that his wite, Plor linen, there were | reached the Platena de la Merlasse he was | amid the heart of the century old tre necessary to change some “Oh, m, old friend,” repeated Plerre, “how mo a pricst. Meanwhile, after reading his was also thoere, ¢ er's books, he o o e 5t the | nobody could be refused lest the money 58 o o bathed in the bright sunlight, in the fresh | the eternal freshness of her running waters, also there, and he detained the father LW father's books, e had come to doubt some of the horeased yoar | other needs to fulflll. ‘One who had an ulcer od | moment longer. His large, paternal looking | L PItY ¥eu! What a terrible sorrow. But teachings of the ohurch. Marie became very re- | might fall off, so the number Uiclous, and finally Dierre consented to accom- | by year, Fortunately there were many other needs Lo R en Sond ‘eries. that Mme. | and balmy air. Ho turned and smiled softly | the procession pustied—its members du Preshenchux mad underiaken to redress the | at Marie, and’ they were both enchanted at ( by fleshy ilis, with rolten skins, dropsic ; pany fer on e pilgrimaee o Lourdes, © 5| among these women “who were content | DesneRCRu, B SREREEIG B [aThotwith- | the wonderful view that spread before them | creatures swelled like botties; its rheumatics | B, g nodded his head. gl ] qeupter 111 5The wuffering in e’ traln 8 18 | porely to wear the red cross on their dross, | S0re, but she wap suitvarth SC SN | in”tho morning splendor when they got as | and palalytics torn with suftaring, and those | Suddonly Father Fourcado got into the pul- | ‘i ot g mwas - thay dorizon. found 1o examine. the unknown man, who % | and, once at Lourdes, immediatelywent oft { Stantng CY NS SR IR 6o boqrrul odor, [ far as the place of the Rosary. Opposite, to | with water on the brain, the dancers of St. f pit, stood up, straightening his tall figure | keep me with (hem. They are here and Aupposod, (0 b’ dying Tie doctor proves (0 be | on excursions. But those who did devote | REEEE (GCHCE TV agked for soup, and [ the eastward, was old Lourdes, apparently | Vitus, the consumptives, the cpileptics, the | that tho attack of gout from which he was | 1o D mo with them. Al is over. I wait.only an old friend of Sister Hyncinthe, wihom ahe | themselves were truly to be commended, for | FROW WAB WECR WEEG S ‘the midst of [ sunic in a turn of the mountain, on the other | sorofulous, those with goitres, the foolish | sufering, had bent slightly, and he did not Sl e i Devond his 84, and'a brivst With the hoiy oii | they passed five days of horrible fatigue, | Sl CCSin contradictory orders that | side of the rocks. Behind the distant moun- | and the mad—all, all fied past. Ave, ave, | wish his dearly beloved *'brother, Father RYIng 1 Lo BFhers c e dn e IR A i8 sent. for, sleeping scarcely two hours each nlght and | TS By oo ™ gonnia Couteau, very gay, | tains the sun was rising, and its purple rays | ave, Marie! And the continual complaint in- is, preferred by all, to go away en- | fomt m LR AL T while in clhapter TV.fust as the train starts Sophie | Jiving in the midst of the most repugnant | Jo,°00 S Cly thig turmoll, who was stop: | flooded the solitary rock that was crowned ( creased as It bore that abominable crowd ; o 10 Kith on . this: Btep of the, nirs |t ngins the Lo atses pLite GavemaUY e T A ST i e to op | and terrible sights. They were present at all | UL S ot gisters, ran, Jumped and [ by the tower and crumbling walls of the | of human misery and sorrow toward the | row stalrcase, leanig on his shoulder. THRG || R ae oh e e AU RYARD TN diseased foot by simply dipping it in the water | times, bathed Infected sores, emptied d over | danced a breakdown, called upon by all, [ ancient chateau, once the redoubtable key to | grotto, to the horror and terror of the | With a full and serious voice, with a sovér- | on the n'r::?n.‘-r.v'.'~.-.1mx;'- .h"l ""r‘ ‘:r'l|'j' trees At Lourdes, Hor tale buoye b the faith of tho [ and pots, changed solled linen, turned over | SaRese © ROV CERNCH Bove prought | the Seven Valleys. Through the golden sun- | passersby who stood transfixed, frozen by the | Ign authority that instantly’ gave place to | mained, and although sithin 200 foat ot the co also exprosse why ot t of those who love you? W | | face also expressed a sort of perplexity, and | yury I;'lmlr::"lnrkllviv"(ll: ‘)«&I.!' ;;rli" e oo DAt ' Thie ‘A ronds. atoul o book giv- | the invalide—in tact, attended o every BASY | 45 cqch one of a miraculous cure. beams one could only see the proud arris, | sight of that galloping nightmare, profound silcnce: *Beloved brothiers, beloved | crowd they might have been in (he desert i the history of Tornadetie, the girl who waw | need to which they were =GOt e o rsscd, however, In il this agl- | ploces of cyclopean construction, beyond them | Plorre and Marle were the first to pass | Sisters, I ask your pardon for intorrupting | so Mitte 4i the peopts at i thotry joesert, thee vision In the grotto. it was on February 11, | customed. But they came forth from it all | A& SRS Bt %7 Thlt s the Abbe | indistinct roofs, the discolored and ruined | under the high arcade of the rampart. Then | YOUT prayers, but I have a communicati SN s e W ohetions ssganc | niltdean it SeVREiBH et D but | Fidaine camo in. He was the almoner of the | roofs of the old town, while upon this side | as they followed the quay of the Gave they | {0 make to you, I mustask for the assist- [ long time. bierro T dent, ‘stFolled (nto the kroito, The early history | DUFRIIR with the cha 5 Ward of St. Honorine and he had been de- [ of the chateau, stretching right and lett, | were suddenly in front of the grotto. And | ance of all faithful souls. We have to deplore | cumstanc.s he had that morming. resched : Lheitiioran also siven snowing itheten- | LAIEL KABRE o pn o aaked! Mme: Desag. | talnedtonly by thaidimailty lio had I - | the' new/itown smilsdinFits iverdure, willi]) Marle;iwHonPlerte puslied up closstofthe 2 ey Gad accident this morning. One of | Lourdes, with the national pilgrimage, ency. of e d toward religlous subjects, A . ! as Pk cupled altar where he could say brethren died in the train that brought | company N 3 The *Abbe alko gives hix version of the story, “ d to find her here. ing an unoccup > R dnELHO LR (g ht | company with M. de Guersaint and daughter. though she now all about it and wished to | cry Was heard from every bed: “Oh. VAt : J “What! Do you think the miracle pssible [ ey talked for a Second Day, Chapter 1.—The hospital train ar- rives in Lo Reception and care of the af- Let us be off! Let. us go at once He stopped for a few moments. H X gidtedideralied: silence any Inquiries, feeling herself the ten- | (oo’ oy sustaining them, and each mo- pshre0]lorastitaller ) KBV N NTLO s facs) comz | tmueh oy o e RGO DTS CHAPTER 1T e e oo o must bo resting at | ment they became moro and more anxlous, menced to beam in the royal waves of his | indifferenttr o Ot lcast completely APTER II. She is not strong, she must be : nced to beam al wave s | indifrerent? 5, as though devoured by a burning thirst that long beard. Well, my dear brothers, my He looked at him dumbfounded at what The Hospital of Our Lady of Sorrows, | the hotel We must let her slecp.” O e dat At o mfravis 5 v o care of the beds be- bullt by a charitable canon and for lack of |, Then she divided the care of the becs B |4 el ntain, La Grivotte, above all, sit- tween the ladies, giving two to each Bvery | (G0 o hiattress, with clasped hands, dear sisters, the idea occurs to me that not- | he had just heard him say Withstanding this we must not despair. Who | and_Bernadette. He, whe knows but that God wishes, by means of | mir out the grotto well balanesd funds not yet finished, is a large four-story 6 < s r particular spot. d, a man of such cxact mtelliger ce, w bullding much too tall on account of taking ‘;2.‘..;”3.“..1"é’l;‘.ffis’f"i.'p°§n3|'em,!\-.. to, asvertain besought them to take hcr!torz::m::rull'l‘?‘; iy qu] man, to prove His omnipotence to | former powers of analysis he BAA1E ..‘r‘.h::i; i sick persons up so high. Ordinarily it is oc- | the whercabouts of the mzin office, the linen :\:};‘rlgfilfllfi;{:‘; ‘fl;\l"'o*:_l:l;:’ tunt oRmntied tho "\]\]xl).xll‘: l;l 13 lulk). laivolcy that makes | admired! How could a mind of such a cali- | § cupied by about 100 infirm and poor old peo- | rogm and Kitchen. ok (b Cetc ety h‘;‘r Alrendy the beginning of a miracle? She it ]vlfi:)'or;;x r“:\ ll)i’fxnl:ll:lh‘\l\(l|<§n(q“:l; :::::‘I,"?ulll’n';ln:;n: un;l ;-'»u,-,y :llur‘ufllud ‘I;run'! any %3 Dle,'but at the t{me of the national pilgrim- Do,’;;,?e;::; e LB e * | had arrived limp, fainting. Now she was more, and whose salvation is nevertholess in | how had it been L\I)r"‘llu'zllllll“ 1:;“11:1:\-:;'1‘””:‘555 § age these occupants are sheltered elsewhere | it tnere was no drug room, There was | Sitting up, turning her black eyes on all the hands of the most Holy Virgin, who | miraculous cures, operated by the divine d Sides, longing for the blessed hour when she always implores her Divine Son. Yes, the | fountain, that the Holy Virgin had caused to for three days and the hospital is hired by | not even a medical man present. the Fathers of the Assumption, who some- | good was one, since all the invalids had been L " | given up by science—were hopeless creatures times place there as many as 600 or 600 In- | oo oo ask God for the cure that imyatent valids. No matter how crowded they may | men could not promise? Naturally any should be fetched, and, with her livid face gaining a color, she looked as if already resuscitated “Mercy, vicar. Tell them to take me. I feel that I am about to be cured.” man is here. I have had bLis body brought, | flow between the fingers of a child and perchance it depends on you whether a | “But, my dear doctor, remember you your dazzling miracle burst uponearth, if you [ self furnished the notes about Bernadette to pray with ardor sufficient to touch heaven. | my mother, your little kinswoman, as you We will plunge the body in the pool, we will | called her, and when her story interested me be there fs always insuflicient room in the treatment had to be interrupted during the " s 4 S oeisf The Ferieinig 800) or 4007 1nvallds’ bilgTimuge:: 1fka aicic: man aledbthoy. a0z ||s7Abbel Judalne;withi nfaibenian fnos i supplicate the Saviour, master of the world, | later it was you again who talked to me Ho Inistored the last rites. And only the | Its fatherly smile, listened and quieted thel to resuscitate him, to give us this extraor- | much of her. To you she orel. i L are distributed, the men in the Hospital ot | WINSCTAl JT8 (500 1G™ g ccompanied the | Impatience with quiet words. —They would dinary sign of His sovereign goodness.” valid, full of hallacinations, a hAlt-conscious g the Salutation, the Women In the town hos- | Jis (0Kt W e With his tiny box of | be going in a moment, but they must bo A frozen sigh, as though from the invisible | ohild. ncapable of will. Do you remember ; Dpital. ;’r:xs: to try and help a little in case he was rensonnh};h and gl\'ellhllr;gf av[cm:?u‘-ml‘ongg world, passed over. the congregation. All | our falles l'-“y Sl ui‘f“.m:;(l:; nt\h:a: ! crisis, | right. en, too, the Holy Virgin had turned pale, and without a word having elped gain?"’ ; T ot S s el Rficfififlzb{erg;":::o:::::x PSien Hyacinthe. was | like fo be hustled, but biding her own time Been sald’ o murmur: scemad o, run about | o sas Greatls overeuia. fr was Ibinot 3 contusion was great In tho sanded courtyard | AL that ¥ery Wofent Fsie CHECIRNGET | would aistribute her favors to n,de wisest. like a shudder. the strangest adventure? He was a priest, b before the door, that was guarded by two [ g\ Francols untll now, into a closet near [ As he passed by R “But,” added Father Fourcade violently, | formerly merely content to believe, about o | priests ever since the day before the corps | the linen room, where he proposed to estab- | her hands joined in suppl ) s . “in order to raise a real faith with what ar- | renounce his faith in the contact with the i “And you, too, my daughter, are you in of temporary directors had been established | lish himself. 4 grenlyn hurcy? . Be guieti there are “Madame,” he said to Mm. de Jonquiere, s sier o ier, ot with a porfect | UMGRYC o osal, " Tn caso of meod | mereles for al mass of registers, tickets and printed for- | oo % GF WU O 0 dor must we pray. Dear brothers, dear sis- | Physician, who was then an unbeliever, but ters, it is your whole soul that T want, a | Whom he found at this time converted, won prayer in which you are to put your heart, | Over to the supernatural, while he himselt your blood, your life, with all the noblest and | Was in the agonizing tortures of no longer “Oh! father,” she murmured, “I am mulas. Bvery one wished to do better than | ° §ha scarcely heard him, for she was quar- | Aying of love. ~ My heart is so swelled with L believing. 5 y ghts you possess. Pray ving. . the preceding year. The lower wards were | reling with a young priest of the society be- nr:lv:r:v;:fl:‘)'“lc;eesim;y"[wfi“;fl‘;‘;";"‘- sk with all your might, pray so that you no | You who only accept positive facts, who rvation, do you, longer know who you are nor where you are, | base everything upon obse Pray as one loves, one dies, for what we are | then, renounce ail science? about to ask for Is o precious a mercy, so | Then Chassalgue, who until now hal smilel rare, so astounding, that the violence of our | Peacefully and sadly, made a motion of adoration will alone force God to answer us, | Boyereisn disdain. And in order that our prayers may be effica- Science! Do I know anything—can I do clous, that they may have time to swell and | an¥thing? ~You asked me just now of what mount to the feet of the Btornal Father, we | disease my poor Marguerite died. I cannot will not take the body down Into the pool [ t¢ll- I who fancled myself so wlse, s0 Uati1 this svening at 4 vrelock. Dear brothers, | Armed against death, found I understood ear sisters. bray. pray to tho ol Virgh, | nothing, could do nothing, not even prolong 1 1 " | my daughter’s lite by one hour. And my the Queen of Angels, the consolatrix of the | yife, whom T found cold In her bed, having d retired the night before better than ever He took up the rosary, overcome by emo- i and so gay, was I able to even foretell what tion, while Father Massais burst into sobs. | ought to have been done for her? No, n The great, anxious silence was broken, a | weince has failed for me. I no longer wish ore only seven night vessels in fottagresyrved for, o) most. hoiplsee;, olac- ffi'e“."vfl‘ri" O o s uir, It We require a | poor, wasted child, struck down so severely where the greatest care would be taken in ., e G I calming potion”— But she did not finish, [ in he y the dlstribution of tickets, bearing the name | going batk to her discussion: comfort her he showed her to Mme. Vetu, : of the ward and number of the bed, for | “Come, now, Abbe, try to get me five or | sitting next, who did not move, but kept her ; % t us to man- | open eyes fixed on the passers by. Eiaeccqre ot Ak tiaTion Ba Baon known | 25 Jrory, BN G20 SR, ! “Look at madame, now quiet she is! Sho in the past. But upon the arrival of the Ferrand listened, looking hastily | Is gaining, and like a little child she is right white train with Its surging mass of fearful Brlc};v?d e "this extraordinary place, where | to put herself in God's hands.” sufferors all the good intentions were scat- | chance had placed him the day before. He | But ina voice that wis not heard, it was tered to the wind, and fresh formalities so | who did not believe, and who was there | so low, Mme. Vetu babbled: “Oh! how I ; > merely for charity and friendship's sake, | suffer, T suffer.”” 8 greatly complicated matters that they were | G/ 50 oiceq at the astounding stir, caused | Finally, at a quarter to 8, Mme. de i obliged to begin by putting down the un- | by g5 much misery and suffering, that hung | Jonquicre told the invalids they might begin ) fortunate il ones in the courtyard, in pro- | only on the hope of happiness. Ilis ideas as | to get ready. She herself, aided"by Sister s they arrived, and afterward the; a trained physician were completely upset | Hyacinthe and Mme. Desagneaux, went s o ey ik by all this disregard of precautions, the mis- | about buttoning up dresses, putting boots i would be-admitted In order. Once again the | \C RSl Giniost indications of selence in | and shoes on useless feet. Tt was a regular contagion spread through the crowd and car- | {o know. I am only a ereature and a poor A unloading at the station seemed to repeat it- | {ye cortainty that it heaven wished it a curc | dressing up, for all wished to look their ried them away by cries, tears, and disor- | man.” 4 self, a piteous encampment in the open air, | would be affected, even #hough it was | best before the Holy Virgin. = Many took dered babblings and supplications. It was | He spoke thus in a furfous rage against his G while the letter carriers and the elerical em- | Wrought by means contrary to all laws of na- [ the opportunity to wash their hands. like a delirium that whispered, abolishing | whole proud and happy past. Then becoming i ployes, young men from the seminary, ran | ture. — Then, why this last concession to | Others unpacked their rags and put on clean all will power and making of these creatures | more calm v " 2 human judgment? Why fetch a doctor on | clothes. Elsle Rouguet had finally dis- nothing more than a creature who, exas- “Look, I feel now nothing but a fearful re- i about In a vague manner. N the train? He went back to his office, | covered a pocket mirror belonging to one of perated by love, was steeped in a mad desirc | morse. Yet it haunts me and pushes me for an impossible prodigy. here constantly to prowl among those who For a moment Pierre felt as though the | pray. It f- hat I did not come first and carth was givine way beneath him, and | humiliate m. eIf before this grotto by bring- thought he musv fall in a faint. He got up | ing hither my two darlings. They would ‘ “They have tried to do well,” cried the | vaguely ashamed, feeling uscless and a little [ her neighbors, an enormous woman with L Baron Suire in despair. ridiculous. dropsy, who was very particular about her 4 vas t v “All the same, make up some opium pills,” | looks, and was absorbed in tying on her And it was true, for never bofore had 8o | vy oq° gigter ‘Hyacinthe to him as she | scart gracetully about her face, hiding with 3 many unnecessary precautions been taken, | (R RN SR N en room. “They | Infinite care her monstrous visage, with its painfully and went away. have knelt like all these women you see, I 4 and they found that by a serles of inex- | wjll be asked for, for we have several in- | bleeding sore. Right in front of her, pro- e should simply have knelt beside them, and plicable mistakes the very invalids most | valids that give me great uneasiness. foundly interested, Sophie stood watching. CHAPTER 1IL perhaps the Holy Virgin might have healed and helped them. But I, fool, knew no difcult to move had been classed to go in | She looked at him with her great blue Abbe Judaine gave the signal to start As Plerre walked away,™filled with mis- i i . | eves, so soft, so good, with their continued | for the grotto. ~He wished to go, as he ot A 3 4 | better than to lose them. It is my fault.” .~ the upper wards, It was too late to make | SY& 80 Hoft, so snod, Wih thelr CORUUER | (ila, With his dear sisters In suftering and givings and overcomo by an invinelble ro- | Pl Lo now rolling down' his chedl i new classifications. Things must now be | dazzling youthful skin with brilliant red, | In God, leaving behind the ladies and the THE PROCESSION TO THE GROTTO. DUgNANCe b0 FO T et Kieeling Toay the | “I recollect in my-childhood, at Bartres, that - 4 b stralghtened out as best they could, and the | Then, like an old friend who liked to share | Sisters to put things in order in the ward. I8 3 percelved M o e K e et come | my mother, a ploasant woman, used to fold - distribution of tickets began, while a young | the requirements of her heart with him: Tbeiwardiwas emplisd abiojicetanditiiexin: 7 Fletors absorbed. He 1ad not seen him since | MY hands and cach morning asic for the help k 0l o TR L) C - | val aken Vi 8 . g ¥ L 3 ] prayer agi o back cle: o h i i o o ts wheels o o cortese | and fine shops, a whole, noisy and wealthy her cart, murmuring: that the latter had succeeded In hiring two | ¥ N EIORYy | was alonc, s feebl i RRTNRAnroaucachie own. hodpital eard, the | handd e wheols, ook the dend Dt ihe cortege, | {Cn, grown up within a fow years, as by a FOh, most Holy Virgin, dearly beloved Vir- | rooms at the top of a hotel, and his first jm- | 41 wandering us 4 child, CWhat do you , my friend? My hands again clasped it or of his train, bearing his name and the | Then he felt happy. He had come at the | formed of about twenty push carts and lit- " & eithe: o was o on he: henltatad 3 :l?llmbfl‘ of his order, llulls on that card were | Idea that he might be of use to her. Once | ters. Other wards likewise poured out, and miracle. gin, She had seen nothing—neither the | pulse was to join him. 2 h. n‘ he he <.M|‘l il written the name of the ward and the num- | more he saw her by his cot when he had | the court yard was filled, the long file of 5 At ]flw 'fm\,‘fl: lu:dffrk r“m:v;:lg“‘i::res l‘fiflfll; :»xhwln“;r the xlwmrnrnur“lhr:z-hru’-‘x]-l:ullzznrrJt“n;; ;xl:![: l.mf.?\’.'«"“u7f:|x'lx'..“zl"’|rl.'x|.l."fl sxn‘»’r1:111“:.,#':_.”;‘1? thomaslves: au’ thoy lsadiiohoy TWIBAGE o o A | ne e vehicles following on at random, el ng along in blue gree! b y deel elve canons, before whic z he mus P o o pra § 9 oo lonesome; Tofoel the }:Bnrgz‘x’.:n(.;‘«‘fz;’;d||xtg nl;eu.f‘(:l‘u“;l‘;u‘é il l"s;:\rllni-r,d:flh fi:'e"i'fi.fi."nfii :r’nclé“:)‘l ::o:l’ux«: was an Il\lermlv‘l‘nhle queue deN(-:l?.;:L;:lI::;i under the old bridge, shallow under the new passed, nor could she distinguish any better | daughter, whom he adored, notwithstanding superhuman comfort—a Divine help that 0 o o 800D IROL0 ¢ A 5 . 8ty sl caukac would” think for, would do for me, that ‘ e A o t6. the: bottom of this | angel, a mixture of comrade and woman, | Father stecp hill of the Avenue e la Grotte, | one, bullt by ‘the fathers to conn the o the'laft the recoptacle for the lioly artl- | tho constant mental anxiety she caused. = 8o | WOUE, (TP 100, Boll A0 Ior, Mo Buat themselves as they used to do. I was too ' g ol 5o that Pierre had alread: 5 grotto with the station and with the recently cles or to the right the stone pulpit, already | he passed on and wa rled vay In s ot 4 PASSRILAIER: tonsall Atafour slorles, shsno Any thought of religion or of bellef bohind | 38 Ahat Bl A et e the ont Iitne | Gpened boulevard. ~Like a_background to this ocoupled by Father Massias. The plondor | the treos. Nino o'clock str He! nonl] Ul galim. . by thioks Gest ALY VARGERAS commenced o conscloss tramping of feet. | 1eF L & o Wiah, sister, I belong | bearers wore loaving - tho hospital court | deliclous picture, with ita clear water, its of the grotto alone dazzled her—a hundred | atill two hours beforo him. fuston, what ‘a turmoil in my poor head, o i ward on the ground floor, | to you and shall bo-too happy to serve you. | yard. greoneries, the rostored town, wide sproading thousand candles seemed to be [ Where formerly wild boars had grazed on | DOWed hengath the missive biaw i had dust £ D amily " ward, because the sick | You know what a debt of gratitude I stili [ It was 8 o'clock, and the sun, already high | and gay, stood the little Gers and the great burning there behind the grating, | the wild mountain side a magnificent avenue | FOSNed. | BARES CRCREY MRS WA : Then wero allowed to have their wives near | OWe you." In the heavens, a trlumphant’ Augusc sun. | Gers, two enormous ridges of Bare rock and filling the ~low opening With & f running along the banks of the Gave had re- | Grinee b GOREE & AR D B § JURIES g 3 D e et ‘only women wers supposed | She gently placed her finger on his lips to | Was shining in'the clear, lovely sky. Tho | short grass, that in the subdued shadow cast light like that of a furnace, and forming a | contly been built by the almighty means of | YOy sort of Moa. 1 rebchled so that ut e mitted to the Tiospital of Our Lady | sllence him, Nobody owed her anything, | Dlue cther seemed quite new with childlike | over them changed from delicato purple to starlike ray around the Virgin's staiue that | gold.” The bed of tho river had been changed | NS 1 shook my et ut heaven, hen 1 g o7 Horrows. ‘And although Brother Isidore | She was only the servant of the poor and | freshuess, as though the storm had washed | pale green, then dying into a faint piuk. stood up. ik on tho edge of marrow ox- | o givo moro ground ‘and to eroct a momn- | Mo Gt R SGU BRI 00 (0 bk . had brought a sister, they were looked upon | Suffering. Just then the first invalid came | all clouds away. And the terrible file, the To the north, on the right bank of the = cavation in the shape of a pointed arch. | mental quay that was bordered by a wide i oo et it inally made me calm, g i a0 Eoule, ‘and he was placed in the bed | Into the ward of Saint Honorine. It was | court of miracics in human sufering, came | Gave, near the hilla that follow tho line of | There seemed nothing clse to hor out- | sidowalk, guarded by a railing. The avenue | % of love that natly made mo cabn, kive i o P onttour . Sabatnier. Near them | Marle, whom Plerre, aided by Gerard, had | slowly down the hill in all the brightness of | the rallway, were the hoights of Buala, sido this glorious apparition. Nejhor the | forminated against the side of a Will, about | 1 e buck at the same thne iy falth | You | was the chapel, still unplastered, and the | just brought up, lying in her wooden box. The | the glorlous morning. It had no end, that | wooded hillsides drowned in matutinal lights. = crutches, with which they had lined one {300 or 300 yards away, 0 it was a limited | oo, oo G e B B oy o e T with “boards, " Other | 1ast to leave the station she was the AFst to | String of abominations. It scmed to’ grow | Bartres was on that side. —Further to the portion of the vault, nor the boauets thioki | promonade, with rows of benches all sbadetl | yog™ monstrous injustice 1t for lior, i wards were also unfinished, although they | arrive, thanks to the endless complications | longer and longer. No order, a mixing of | left was the conservalory of *Jules, over- ps, fading away among the fvy and the | by magnificent trees, As it led nowhere, it | 08 000 Ny lived, thers was nbthibaad® having dotained them all, were now | €very evil, the outpouring of a hell where | shadowed by Miramont. ~ Far away other briars, nor even the altar, placed in | way only used by the overflow of the crowds, g 5.6 beyond the tomb? She must live again, I % feel an absolute conviction, for I hear her still sometimes telling me we shall moet had been filled with mattresses, on which | that A . ) invalids were being laid, But the crowd | over, leaving them to their chances of dis- | Were heaped monstrous maladies, rare cases | summits v elted into the atmosphere. On | the center beside a small portable organ | and there might be found little quiet cor v " in the green val- | that was covered over. But as she lifted her | ners, half way between the green wall be- of those who could walk already besicged | tribution by means of their tickets. M. de | that made the blood freeze in one's veins. | the lower plains, studded | s o | X “'.. refoctory, a long gallery whose large | Guersaint had left his daughter, at her de- | Heads eaten by eczema, foreheads crowned | leys all about the Gave, numerous convents | eyes she perceived on top of the'rock, as if | hind, that separated It from the wide flelds UL LR L LR LR S e Windows looked out on an interfor court, | sire, in front of the hospital door; she was | by birthmarks, noses and mouths changed to | gave a look of life to the scene. They | in heaven, the fragile white basilica, now | spreading to the northward, and the Gave, | SEFATE WIS 8EE BIF BRATE | B (R Y and the Sisters of St. Fral, who officiated | 50 uneasy at the crowds in the hotels that | 100k like pigs' snouts by elephantiasis. For- | seemed to have grown there like some | presented in profile, with the pointed needle | with its wooded inclines, brightened by the B ¢ : L X . - r in the blue of | w onies of the distant convents.. On | that T have lost—my dear wife, my darling edy vegetation in this prodi- | like spire, lost like a praye whito facades of the disfant convants, | On | haL} MAVE, LostmY, GO0 Wil I, SRS el ghe wished him to go at once a otten diseases were the p of tural and habitually in the hospital, had remained at shed hi B8O ce and secure, if | & e ere resurrected, an | natur: and Bpirec camo an orphanage, es- | the infinite ether. A T A helr post in the kitchen, giving out bowls | possible, two rooms for Plerre and himself. | 01d woman stricken by leprosy, and another | glous la ” o6 eshnos consolation for all the sorrows of this world, ; O ot il And chocalate to all those | And she was %0 tired that when she knew | that was covered with Mohons ifke a tree that | tablished by tho Sisters of Nevers, whose | «on, mighty Virgin! Queen of Virglns, | edgo, might be found a delicloup feshnoss, e Slvei mysele tol Goar hecauhat et Wretehed women, tired out by their terriblo | that she could not go at once to the Grotto | had decayed in the shade. Then came drop- | vast bulldings glistened in the sun; then ob- | goly Virgin of Virgins! forrs immediately folt rofrashed s | NG S hem hackc again to me.” g S e though he ourne; sho had consented to be put to bed for a | sical discases, swollen like leathern bottles, | posite to the srotto was the convent of the | —pio.rg had, however, succeeded in pushing 3 10w o d i A little grunt that told of a debilitated old bl Rost, regain your strength,” repeated | While. “See, my child,” sald Mme. de Jon- | their stomach heaving under thelr coverings, | Carmelites, on the road to Paris, and :lxxar Marle's carriags o the nearest spot, even in | dream. “He que :‘o‘;:’:‘;(‘lunl;""m“nx;‘“l’fp was | A Ha-geunt ha G SRRV IIRIRE IS 5 the Baron Suire, who seemed everywhere | quiere, “you have three hours before you, | While hands twisted by rheumatism hung | up on the way to l&"!)'l'l”"; f‘"‘“’ “’l .‘ | front of the oaken seats that were placed in 7’\")“' Iv:l-’ry "{nm‘-"“ e eriving ‘at Lourdes | the conversion had been brought about; _ 3 R e Ry, “KYauChave three tlonk | Wo Wil gtk 04 Ju: voun bed. It will yeat o“«:“ue e liste andaresl feliputipuied '“mmm‘l“my\l‘yh(:;lowa‘u P l:t:;l‘:x"nl"‘lhel': BUIRATONA JONR. A0 "‘T',,"" BaYS 'f’ A c""""{‘ felt a longing to belleve, almost thinking | the sclentific man, intellectually grown old, g ' i oedema, unreco; X wilds, o en &ir. ese benches weroe al- 3 b 4 ~ g g e v e 0 | ¥ i Hor ebbciabre. while Blater Hyas | ftled Wit oid cogutzable, looking Iike' bags | the wilde, BAl H0%hers'of the Immacu- | but In the oper Aie Rheks 0 vaIlds who | that he did so iroady, as ho used to when | Feturned to his betlat hnter, (ho fominti ] one 18 to §0 Lo the Grotto until 8, to avoid | cinthe took her feet. Tho bed stood in the | on tho brain, seated in a little cart, tried to | late Conception, called the Blue Slaters, who | could sit down. Lavke spaces were occu: J8he e (mvtiioe him | lic ad not oven suspocted until then, that i too much fatigue middle of the ward, near a window. For an | balance her enormous cranium, that, top- | had founded at the end of the valley a house | ;jog by )jtters placed on the ground, and by ande I prayer, toachiog him | bF, FAd 0L QP Sort o o atavistio faiin 5 o 5 t, where they took In single ladies, » carts whoso wheels were locked | thus to fear atad (A L ty Above, on the second floor, Mme. de Jon- | instant the invalid kept her eyes closed, as if | heavy, kept falling back, A great girl with 3&5‘"57&:--": L B L :l':lu; :L“lfimwmnun by a pile of pillows and | found himselt In front of the grotto ho was | in this old Pyrenccan, the son of a mountaln i quiere at once tdken possession of St. | exhausted by thus being moved. Then she | St. Vitus dance jumped all over without stop- Il the convent bells were . overwholmed almost to dishellef by the | beasant brought up in superstition, and 3 Honorine's ward, of which she was the di- | wished Pierre to come In, for she became | Ping, with villaiinous grimaces Yhat dragged | this early hour aif L0 CORVORE FO mattresses on which every il was repre- R it didit y Who, even after fifty years of serlous study, . & ringing out on the crystal | MALVEEAE OF PRI snized the Vignerons | idolatries of the forins, the violence of faith 0, (AL L Vet of NATRLN ST Teotress. She had been obliged to leave her | most nervous, and said she must say some- | the left side of her face. A younger one, | pealing merrily, zainst reason. What was | returne le from the further end of the horl- | whon je first arrived, with their sad child, | and the struggle daughter Raymonde down stairs to assist in | thing to him. behind, made a noise, a plaintive cry, like [ air, whi Againat L W% [ Was also the result of human lassitude. i " " e o bells of other convents he middle of a bench, | to become of him? ~ Was he not even to b “hug s @ of the refectory, as the rules for- Do not go away, my friend, I . | & beast, every time the tic-douloureux, with | zon, the south, the ) Gus sitting in the mide a \ A of b BsLe" he |7 to whom science has given no happle the service of the Y ot & ¥y, my nd, 1 beseech you L4 With the same silvery sound of | SuS@FS PIOE N Derceived the couch | able to silence his doubt by making uso of | A man to whowm ReTERES Tas ENEE B O "’,‘:" who rel bade any young girls to go into the wards, | Carry the boy out to the landing, but stay | which she was tortured, struck her mouth answered N »ont-Vieux particularly the Y s containing Mme. Dieu- | this journey to see and know. The com- | Ness, A ight see disagreeable and dis- | there, because ” | ana right cheek and secmed to poke it out. | joy. Near the Pont trimmed with laces contalning Mme. { d gy n that’ she appears futlle and unable to dry i g e hat e Mme. Dosag- | miseion T wish o be.taken down agatar - | Thon followed. tho- consumplives, trembiin Dlis ot the Siators of Clariase chimed @ | jaay down on the fagatones, while beside | mencoment of It wis certaiyy GRereRtig B tcars, “And ere was fually total diae neaux, who was only a simple helper in the “Are you better in that bed?" asked the | with fever, exhausted by dysentery, thin as | scale of such clear notes thal ll(m 1 her, praying, knelt her husband and sister. i @ lflv O ben. (s limpld stroam, to re- | couragement, a doubt of those things that hospital, had not left her diractress, from | youns priest, skeletons, with lvid skins, the color of the | been a bird chirping, —And from this slde | A1i"around might be seen the Invalids from | these lovely freet, tEE UMVER SR W0 K6 4 tond to a need of assurance to an old man, : O, A o rondy taking. orders, de. | | “'Yes. yen. no doubt. But I do not know. | earth to which they would soon return; and | of the town mighis be seen the depths of | ino rallway carriage, M. Sabathier and | slore him atter the shockc Aw Plerro feached | 1ohd 10, 8 HtS °8 i\ 0° o' o' car p Mghted to be able at least to devote herself | 1 am i such haste. Oh, God! to be yonder, | there was one very white one, with eyes of | moro valleys. MOun(Ai reared thelr naked | groior Isidore side by side, Mme. Vetu | the end of the path he had pected | BOBE B ¥ Blerro did not protest mor di o the work. 2t the fest of the Blascrd Virgintt + | fhore WAL iy tike a deathos head In whioh | sides, all nature yeamod disturbed, yet smil- | ynyjug back (n a carriage, La Grivotte ex- | encounter. He llul‘ noticed for some mo- | (0 (O T van old man with iy sad 4 Madamo, are all thosa beds well made? | © When Pierre had taken away the box her | @ candle had been lighted. Thon all the de- | ing, a billow wlw"‘!::‘ull;.d fl"‘lfli'r-vvfl:'_l:;"l cited, lifted herself on her two hands and i:'.fi",lf,nl.m,:..:"w':..‘.n'.':.:m-i tghtly buttoned tn | Eo broko his heart. Undor such shocks b Suppose I make them over again, with | thoughts became somewhat distracted by the | formities of contraction came along—bodies | Which might be tatieey L0 o vingous, | s’ Rouguet sitting down. Ho evem saw | bis cout, and waaring a whio brimmet Bals | 1005005 (o witness e ‘strongeat, the Slster Hyacioth o of nvaiite: that wracted by the | Tomt double, arms awry, necks turned side. | preciously shadowed by carmine and falnt } sme. Mase apart, overwhelmed In prayer, | was comal CRORC I SR o noge and | most intelligent become childish? ] The ward, painted pale yellow, badly | Mme. Vetu had been brought upstairs I | wise, poor creatures broken and bent, left | blue. while on bended knees Mmo. Vincent, who | call the palo face, with ' aantilne (ot a8 | 0y "y aighed softly, 1, t0o, may sufter b N R e N e aantained |t fires. Dearors, sach bhe Bolding on to oy | motoniess in attitudes ks some iragio | ~ But when Maifd dnd Plerre turned to the | atili heid liitle Rose In hor asms, wes pre- | YOO Byl dplercing ees | But e | ot atly to silence 1y reanots, and Kisele i\ een beds, In Lwo rooms, Against the nn‘:- and had been laid by them mlf the nu‘;l | jumplng jack; one especially, whose right fist | west they were '""fk s‘."""f" rlel’l m“h::‘l" m"';‘""‘ m'rxx‘:{d.:"l‘::y(h:i;hii »Y:.:fi":'l ‘?:llvhln.n :fi‘r‘lt “'r‘::- nlyd man stopped, too, greatly | ing yonder believe all those hu.mlllul| uflh p g od,’ clothes on; there o) | twisted bebind her hip, while the left | shone on the great Beout and the e | mother's petitiol at the Mg Of b Once more the pale smile that had bes i 4 ¢ N Presantly we will see, anawored Mmo. D e ot s briatn i pemained | e & "hang down, fastened on. the shouider. | Beout, upon thelrsyequal summita, | 1t was | Mercy should take wity, Aud all around | IBEUSl, pigrre, you at Lourdest” fore crossed Dr. Chassaigne's lips reap- ‘ . de Jonaulere, with an abstract manner. | and yellow cancerous colored face. The W | Afier them came miserable girls, with | like a e R Puile Aot B0 Aine ":""m:L‘}'.‘.'.'.I'"'.u'u‘if'.‘.'.‘.',.‘".‘m?‘.".i"r"’.“.'fd the rowd | Guddenly the youns prisst recognized Dr. o T ORI S 1 A She unting the beds and examining | v, ere not undressed, but were merely | rickets, plainly seen by their waxen skius, | sling mountain slda, : of g X tor, QeRly 0 NOU B hia Gabers ol 1t is the miraclos. You sre & pri i ok and narro ¥ | sirotone 1 | Slenter mocks, searred by surpromsed humors; | traced the road (al winds and mouats to | pressiug miullitude that grasuslly sretehed | ERANMERS Ly ‘oured”'una comforted i | my child, and 1 know oo wall your sorrew long and narrow ward, Then In an un- | stretched out, with the good advice to rest b “" :Nd repose if possible. Those who had not | yellowish looking women with that stupid “There will never be room emough. They | got on the beds sat on the edgo of the mat- = &lare of sullering occasioned by a gnawiog of I BB ) S % O oug the tres. There on the | out to the banks of the Gave - :’;’.:’.I:i.‘!:-;:xydnhl't::n..l‘-hln'nl forth like a glory, | ful Virgin," continued Marie in an under- | in the terrible physical and moral crisis | The miracles appear to you Linpossible. Wha