Anne Marie, in her short petticoat and nightsack, with bare legs and feet, was on her knees in the corner, pulling up a plank, hidingpeasants know hiding when they see ithiding her money awayawayaway from whom?muttering to herself and shaking her old grayhaired head.

Nothing more was seen of the pale and grayhaired workman; for he kept the lower curtain of his window jealously drawn.