PUBLISHED SEPTEMBER, 1927 SECOND PRINTING OCTOBER, 1927 THIRD PRINTING OCTOBER, 1927 FOURTH PRINTING NOVEMBER, 1927 FIFTH PRINTING NOVEMBER, 1927 SIXTH PRINTING DECEMBER, 1927 SEVENTH PRINTING DECEMBER, 1927 “THE time has now come for me to hear a step in the passage,” said Bernard to himself. He raised his head and listened. Nothing! His father and elder brother were away at the law-courts; his mother paying visits; his sister at a concert; as for his small brother Caloub--the youngest--he was safely shut up for the whole afternoon in his day-school. Bernard Profitendieu had stayed at home to cram for his “_bachot_”;[1] he had only three more weeks before him. His family respected his soli…
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