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ment, the three voyagers, aghast at the narrow- 

 ness of their escape, stood gazing at each other in 

 silence. 



It was three o'clock in the morning when Le 

 Jeune knocked at the door of his rude little con- 

 vent on the St. Charles; and the Fathers, springing 

 in joyful haste from their slumbers, embraced their 

 long absent Superior with ejaculations of praise and 

 benediction. 



