"Yes; it would be a serious inconvenience to me," replied Angelique.
"Now that is worth coming here for. De northwest wind, I do not feel it
since you say that."
"I was thinking before you came, monsieur, what if I should never see
you again? And if I saw you plainly now I could not talk so much. But
something may happen. It is so strange, and like another world, this
water."
Tante-gra'mere screamed, and Angelique disappeared from the window-sill.
It was not the mere outcry of a frightened woman. The keen small shriek
was so terrible in its helplessness and appeal to Heaven that Captain
Saucier was made limp by it.
"What shall I do?" he asked his family.
"I cannot force her into the boat when she cries out like that."
"Perhaps she will go at dawn," suggested Angelique. "The wind may sink.
The howling and the darkness terrify her more than the water."
"But Colonel Menard cannot wait until dawn. We shall all be drowned here
before she will budge," lamented Madame Saucier.
"Leave her with me," urged Peggy Morrison, "and the rest of you go with
Colonel Menard.
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