She is not allowed inside the school-house--hastily cleared of its usual
occupants, who dodge about among the crowd outside, enjoying the
unlooked-for holiday with gusto in spite of its gruesome origin--and so
she prowls about outside, and the neighbours talk and she hears this,
that, and the other, and presently, with bitter, black face and rage in
her heart, she goes off home to find out Stephen Gard if she can, and
accuse him to his face of the murder of her husband.
CHAPTER XVIII
HOW PETER'S DIPLOMACY CAME TO NOUGHT
Peter Mauger had kept himself carefully beyond the range of Julie's wild
black eyes. In the state she was in there was no knowing what she might
do or say. And the words even of a mad woman sometimes stick like burrs.
He began to breathe more freely when she whirled away home.
The Senechal and Constable came out of the school-house at last with
very grave faces.
"The Doctor says his head was staved in with the blows of some round
blunt thing like a mallet," said the Senechal to the gaping crowd, "and
we must hold a proper inquiry.
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