The Son Of Monte Cristo Part 48 (2/2)
”But her name?”
”I have not the smallest idea Cinette always calls her ood little girl in Paris, who earns her bread by singing in the streets It now seee sorrow, one fall of sorrow!”
”And Fanfar--whom do you call Fanfar?” asked the old man, with a troubled face
Caillette started She remembered that her love had been disdained, but she was kind-hearted, of the stuff of whichHe is now a young ood and handsome”
”Where have I heard that name?” Labarre said to himself
Suddenly the woman seated in the chair looked up
”Excuse the siements--the inn does as well as possible”
”Francoise Fougere!” he cried
Francoise started up, as if sustained by supernatural strength
”Who calls me?” she cried ”Who is it that speaks my name?”
”Francoise, do you remember Simon, Jacques, Cinette?”
”My children? Yes, yes--I remember them Where is it that I have just seen them? Oh! yes--I remember I was all alone Cinette's little bed was empty, and then the door opened and Jacques came!”
”Is he alive?” cried Labarre
”Yes,” answered Caillette ”They knew each other at once”
”But where is Francine?”
”She has been abducted by the Vicoht at a chair for support Francoise heard these words
”Talizac! Oh! the base, cruel man Quick! we cannot stay here I must save Francine and Jacques Oh! my box--where is my box?”
My readers must now learn how Francoise and Caillette found theoutte They will renized in the poor, sick woman the mother whose loss he had so deeply deplored, and in Francine the worshi+pped little sister whose agonized cries he had heard in the subterranean passages aes, all clue was lost, for Bobi+chel vanished, and with hihter, who loved Fanfar with a love that ithout hope, said to him:
”She is your mother Will you allow me to take care of her?”
Fanfar looked at Caillette with loving, grateful eyes, and then hastened aith Bobi+chel and Gudel