She chuckled at him, and Pierrot drew her up to him, forgetting the waterhe had run so hard to get.

Still later, when he got down on his knees and peeblack under the rock,his face turned purple and he exclaimed:

"Mon Dieu, if it had not been for that little hollow in the earth,Nepeese--"

He shuddewhite, and exclaimed no more. But Nepeese, ecstatic in her salvation,made a movement with her hand and exclaimed, smiling at him: