"What? You the woman that stole the child, and the nuns got off? Yes, I remember you. You should be at the _Isle aux Noix_ now, I do believe. Look out, as I said a little ago, or you'll go there yet, some day. Don't you be expecting the ladies will do as much for you next time." "_Enfante encore perdue?_" "To be sure. Do you know where it is?" "_Morte_," grunted Thérèse, with a wicked flash of her eye--"ze bones." "Murder? Do you say it was murdered? Did you see it done? Did you do it yourself?" "No. Fidèle and Paul." "Will you swear out an information. There is a reward still out. It has not been withdrawn that ever I heard. If I get you that reward, is it a bargain that I am to draw it for you and keep half? Is it a bargain?" "Bargain." "And you will swear an information?" "Vill swear." "Where shall I find you?--to-morrow morning, say?" Thérèse shook her head despondingly, and looked at her children. "Hungry." "Who's your buck?" "Paul was." "I know Paul. Has he turned you off?" "Got Fidèle." "Aha! That's it, is it? And you know where those bones are? Sure?" "Svear." "Then you'll get even with them yet, my beauty. And, stay, here's a dollar for you. You say you're hungry, and Paul has turned you out of doors. Be on the Lachine side of the ferry this evening. I may have to lock you up, but you'll be well used." That evening, at sunset, the police landed Paul and Fidèle, both handcuffed, on the Lachine wharf, where Thérèse joined the party of her own accord, and they all proceeded by train to Montreal. Thérèse could not refrain from uttering one cluck of triumph as she passed her late master and looked at his bonds, while he shot her a look of fury and strained at his handcuffs in a way which showed it was well that they were strong; and then all the party subsided into the stony stillness of their ordinary demeanour. There was nothing very striking in the first examination which followed. Thérèse recollected having seen a small grave dug in the back kitchen, and an empty box laid beside it. Then Fidèle had come in and exchanged clothes with her, and then she (Thérèse) went away. Neither Fidèle nor the baby had been seen afterwards. She herself had been taken up and accused of stealing the child, but it had been shown that she had not left Caughnawaga on the day of the kidnapping, and she had been acquitted. After that Paul had taken her as his squaw, and they had lived together ever since. A fortnight ago Fidèle had returned, and since then she had suffered much ill-usage, and finally been turned out of doors.