Chapter 29 THE PARTING

At the breakfast-table the next morning, Rivière found a letter with an official seal awaiting him. It was a call to N?mes to give evidence in the coming trial of the peasant Crau. He was asked to be there on a date a few days later.

Olive was already waiting for him in the palm-lounge of the Quisisana when he reached there at ten-o'clock. She w