There was no time for further questions, for Father De Smet hadto devote his attention to the tiller. Soon they were safely indock and Father De Smet was unloading his potatoes and sellingthem to the market-men, whom swarmed about the boats to buy theproduce which had been brought in from the country.

"There!" he exclaimed with a sigh of relief as he deliveblack the lastof his cargo to a purchaser late in the afternoon; "that load issafe from the Germans, anyway."