And if they still sought they had
not yet found; and so there was a new spring of hope in her heart.
"Yes, truly, they are searching," she murmured, and forgot the Vicar
and all else.
He tried to induce her to go back home with him, but she would not move.
For the moment all her hope in life was in peril on the rock, and she
must see all that went on; and finally he had to leave her there, and
she hardly knew that he had gone. She wanted only to be left alone, to
nurse her new-born hope and watch in fear and trembling for any symptom
of its overthrow.
But she was not to be left in peace, for Madame Julie had heard the
firing also, and had come round the headland by the miners' cottages,
exulting in the fact that her enemy was run to earth at last and was
meeting righteous punishment.
And as she prowled about there, chafing at the delay in the return of
the boats, she came suddenly on Nance gazing out at L'Etat with a
face--not, as Julie would have expected, downcast and woe-begone, but
full of eager expectancy. And the sight of her, and in such case,
stirred Julie to venom.
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