"I am out of all danger, thanks to your skill."
"Colonel, at another time I should insist upon your staying a day or two
longer; but now I think it would be unadvisable to press you to stay.
Ah, colonel, you came to a happy house, but you leave a sad one. Poor
Madame Raynal!"
"Sir!"
"You saw the baroness draw her aside."
"Y-yes."
"By this time she knows it."
"In Heaven's name what do you mean?" asked Camille.
"I forgot; you are not aware of the calamity that has fallen upon our
beloved Josephine; on the darling of the house."
Camille turned cold with vague apprehension. But he contrived to stammer
out, "No; tell me! for Heaven's sake tell me."
The doctor thus pressed revealed all in a very few words. "My poor
friend," said he solemnly, "her husband--is dead."
CHAPTER XIV.
The baroness, as I have said, drew Josephine aside, and tried to break
to her the sad news: but her own grief overcame her, and bursting into
tears she bewailed the loss of her son. Josephine was greatly shocked.
Death!--Raynal dead--her true, kind friend dead--her benefactor dead.
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