another meal, Jean having come across an old woman at the Chateau of
Villette who was selling bread at ten francs the pound. But that day
they witnessed a spectacle of which the horror remained imprinted on
their minds for many weeks and months.
The day before Chouteau had noticed that Pache had ceased complaining
and was going about with a careless, satisfied air, as a man might do
who had dined well. He immediately jumped at the conclusion that the
sly fox must have a concealed treasure somewhere, the more so that he
had seen him absent himself for near an hour that morning and come
back with a smile lurking on his face and his mouth filled with
unswallowed food. It must be that he had had a windfall, had probably
joined some marauding party and laid in a stock of provisions. And
Chouteau labored with Loubet and Lapoulle to stir up bad feeling
against the comrade, with the latter more particularly. _Hein!_ wasn’t
he a dirty dog, if he had something to eat, not to go snacks with the
comrades! He ought to have a lesson that he would remember, for his
selfishness.
“To-night we’ll keep a watch on him, don’t you see. We’ll learn
whether he dares to stuff himself on the sly, when so many poor devils
are starving all around him.”
“Yes, yes, that’s the talk! we’ll follow him,” Lapoulle angrily
declared. “We’ll see about it!”
He doubled his fists; he was like a crazy man whenever the subject of
eating was mentioned in his presence. His enormous appetite caused him
to suffer more than the others; his torment at times was such that he
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