Out of the Past — page 140: what you’re looking at

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Out of the Past. 137 “He must be in haste,” suggested Rose, “coming by that train.”’ “Never mind, ma mie. It will do him good to rest. Have you more to tell us, Pater?’ But Benedict had been studying the varying color in Rose’s face. “No—it 1s all rather hazy and improbable—very much like vaporings over a European war which fan the air from time to time —nothing in it. But what I should like to know is the meaning of the very peculiar name of this village. Porte le Sauveur de Péche—there must be a legend of some sort belonging to it.’”’ The question was put to Rose, but noticing a fatigued look in her face, Robert took up the reply. “Yes, a peculiar one. You see the sand bar making out north beyond the lesser bay—a white-capped little penin- sula. On this side of the farthest breakers a deep gully has been worked in the bar. The current makes into it with a swirl and arush. It carries to the bottom whatever it brings or finds on the surface, beats it about and casts it up on the bar with the outgoing drag of waters, which is very strong. It is said that a century ago, when cha- teaux were more plentiful than now, a lord lived on a grand estate a few miles inland. There is the usual tale of a fair village girl and of uncongeniality in his house- hold, which was centered at the Court of Louis XVI. But CONMMICLOOOK<S