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Father Superior sent word to Tiberge of my desire to have an interview with him. That faithful friend had not so completely lost sight of me as to be ignorant of my adventure. He knew that I was at St. Lazare; and probably did not view altogether with regret a disgrace which he thought might result in my reformation. He lost no time in responding to my summons.

Our conversation was friendly in the extreme. He was anxious to know my present frame of mind, and I opened my heart to him without reserve, save on the subject of my contemplated flight.

"In your eyes, dear friend," I said to him, "I do not wish to appear other than I am. If you hoped to find here