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""Why""What"""What""21) 4 THE CURE OP ARS.seemed full of joy ;he laughed at all the arguments andentreaties employed by the two poor women to detain him.Catherine was met by Brother Jerome with asad countenance, and eyes red with weeping. She said as shepassed him :You seem very merry, Brother Jerome ?"should I be sad said the good brother.?"I am verysad."is the matter, then?"I cannot tell you."Her mouth was sealed by the injunction of her pastor,but she had recourse to a little innocent artifice, and,turning her back to the brother, that she might not seem10 address him, she fixed her eyes on the windows of thdpresbytery, and said, as if to herself :Oh, my God M. le Cure ! is then rgoing to-night !do you say ? exclaimed Brother Jerome.Nothing ; I say nothing. I am not speaking toyou."Brother Jerome had heard enough.He went at onceto his superior, and they both together carried the heavytidings to M. Toccanier, who charged them to watch carefully, and to bring him word of any movement on the partf M. Vianney. Catherine now acknowledged that the.-igual, of which he had given her notice, was to be thestriking of three blows on the door of the room where thechurch vestments were kept. She lay awake all night,weeping and praying that M. le Cure might not awake. Thebrother stood sentry in the garden, having previously sentword to M. des Garets, who, though rather incredulous,desired to be sent for, should theip fears be confirmed.At midnight, a light was seen, and the three knockswere heard. The missionary, who had thrown himself