'Have you spoken to Marie?'

'My mother will tell you what I have said. I have spoken nothing in
private.'

'Have you said anything about her marriage?'

'Yes. I have told her that she could not honestly marry the man she
did not love.'

'What right have you, sir,' said Michel, nearly choked with wrath,
'to interfere in the affairs of my household? You had better go,
and go at once. If you return again before they are married, I will
tell the servants to put you off the place!' George Voss made no
answer, but having found his horse and his gig, drove himself off to
Colmar.



CHAPTER XIV.

George Voss, as he drove back to Colmar and thought of what had been
done during the last twenty-four hours, did not find that he had
much occasion for triumph. He had, indeed, the consolation of
knowing that the girl loved him, and in that there was a certain
amount of comfort. As he had ever been thinking about her since he
had left Granpere, so also had she been thinking of him. His father
had told him that they had been no more than children when they
parted, and had ridiculed the idea that any affection formed so long
back and at so early an age should have lasted. But it had lasted;