The Merry Men

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'Jean-Marie,' cried the Doctor, in a voice that was only too seraphic to
be called hysterical, 'is it--? It is!' he cried. 'O, my son, my son!'
And he sat down upon the hamper and sobbed like a little child.

'You will not go to Paris now,' said Jean-Marie sheepishly.

'Casimir,' said Desprez, raising his wet face, 'do you see that boy, that
angel boy? He is the thief; he took the treasure from a man unfit to be
entrusted with its use; he brings it back to me when I am sobered and
humbled. These, Casimir, are the Fruits of my Teaching, and this moment
is the Reward of my Life.'

'_Tiens_,' said Casimir.

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Footnotes


{5} Boggy.

{15} Clock

{16} Enjoy.

{140} To come forrit--to offer oneself as a communicant.

{144} It was a common belief in Scotland that the devil appeared as a
black man. This appears in several witch trials and I think in Law's
_Memorials_, that delightful store-house of the quaint and grisly.

{263} Let it be so, for my tale!