. Light and shade 'round gulf and bayou. ed me as was smooth and plaited closely to my 56 The Flaming Sword head. Yet as I came in the chancel withmy lighted taper, a lady in the congregationreached out her arms, enclosed me in themso fast and cried. Oh! so long she wonder now that my long veil of tulle didnot catch fire from my flaming candle. Sheembraced me so often. Perhaps the BlessedMother prevented that Monsieur, who knows ?I prayed at that altar that day for youMonsieur with all my other friends. Justas when I gather a very fine orange bon amieI wish you were here, th
. Light and shade 'round gulf and bayou. ed me as was smooth and plaited closely to my 56 The Flaming Sword head. Yet as I came in the chancel withmy lighted taper, a lady in the congregationreached out her arms, enclosed me in themso fast and cried. Oh! so long she wonder now that my long veil of tulle didnot catch fire from my flaming candle. Sheembraced me so often. Perhaps the BlessedMother prevented that Monsieur, who knows ?I prayed at that altar that day for youMonsieur with all my other friends. Justas when I gather a very fine orange bon amieI wish you were here, that you might enjoyits sweetness. Yesterday Monsieur I was not quite sogay. I could not be glad at so sad a went far out the city to the Church ofSaint Roche. You must remember thatnearly all who go there take up their staff andmake a pilgrimage thither. Because thegood saint for whom the church was namedalways travelled so. We passed these pil-grims on the road. They were going to makea request of the good saint. St. Roche will. St. Rochs Chapel, was erected in 1S71 by Father Thevis, in fulfilment of hia vowmade during the yellow fever epidemic of 1866-7, that if none of hia parishoners died hewould build, stone by stone, with his own hands, a chapel, in thanksgiving to God; andin honor of St. Roch, who, when alone, with fever in the forest, was miraculously fed by adog. Many miraculous cures are attributed to pilgrimages here. Here young glrlacome to pray for husbands, particularly on Good Friday. Light and Shade 57 grant any prayer. Many maidens go tohim to pray for husbands. But Aunt Mar-guerite says, they will pray more for thesehusbands when they are married to themthan they do now. What does she meanMonsieur? We were not pilgrims yesterday,mon cher amie. We were in a funeral pro-cession. We were following the dead bodyof a lady whose lover was slain shortly be-fore her wedding day. She became some-thing very terrible after that Monsieur. Ido not understand it all
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