thought that she felt certain was reflected there.

"'Come,' he said, leading the way to the cellar, which they gained by
raising the trapdoor in the kitchen floor and descending a ladder,
this being the customary way of getting to the cellar in a peasant's
home.

"For several moments all was silent in the room where Gené and her
mother sat on the floor, the child supporting her parent with one arm.
Down cellar the voices of the Germans could be faintly heard. At last
Gené laid her mother down and tripped lightly to the kitchen.
Listening a moment she cautiously lowered the trapdoor in the floor
and closed the opening, fastening it with its bolt. Not satisfied with
this, the child moved a table to the trapdoor, on which she piled
everything of weight in the kitchen.

"'All is well, mother,' she said, returning to the sick woman. Gené,
for fear of exciting her mother, did not tell her what had been done.
The soldiers with the father having gone, the villagers soon appeared
in the streets, and to them Gené explained that she had captured the
captain of dragoons and several of his men. By this time there was a
great uproar in the cellar. The dragoons were shifting and beating on
the kitchen floor, raging and threatening. They had discovered that
they were in a trap. It would fare hard with Gené and her mother if
the soldiers succeeded in getting out, but of that the child had
little fear. The villagers now offered to guard the imprisoned
soldiers, but the child knew her people could do little in this
direction.

"Early in the afternoon a battalion of French chasseurs came galloping