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The Elixir

Of The Reverend

(Continued from Page 7.)

Father Gaucher.

"It sufficeth to say that the re- "All these are yours, Gaucher,' devil would need to rise very early

Wednesday, 2nd Aug, at 10 amcipe, was found. When, how, said His Reverence to himself.in the morning to catch you nap Wednesday, 16th July at 10 am where, Gaucher alone knows. His "Yes, he walked with conscious ping.

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But as a precaution against But pride goes before a eventualities, I dispense hence- tory is in the dark. That the Bro-pride, ther was neither dolt,nor laggard fall, as is exemplified in the sequel. forth with your attendance at

You

can observe it! "Picture the scene one evening Evensong. ia decisively proved by the fact

Now that, in less than six months, not a at Vespers when Father Gaucher privately in the distillery.

farmhouse or cottage burst in upon the worshippers, depart in peace, Reverend Father. single throughout the Comtat and the Breathless, fushed, recling, his and-count your drops.'

“Alas, the Reverend Father region around Arles but could cowl all awry, plunging into the show in the locked pantry cup-holy water right up to his elbow. needed all his arithmetic to keep board, between the bottles of home- At first the monks thought that, the. Tempter at bay!

"Evensong in the distillery was made wine and the jars of picho- his distillery duties having detain- line olives, a little, brown earthen-ed him, he was flustered at finding unique.

"All went well during the day- ware flagon, its seal stamped with himself late; but when he turned

The Father heated his the arms of Provence, its label all-this back to the High Altar, made time. glorious with- Monk in Rantures obeisance to the organ and gal-furnaces and stills, sorted careful- laries, scudded up the nave like a ly the herbs, those Incomparable on a Silver Ground.

"By the magic succours of Aunt madman, staggered through the herbs of Provence, delicate, in- Begon's Elixir, wealth poured into chancel, plunged into his stall with toxicating, serrated, warmed and the Convent Treasury. The crum-a crash, and rocked from side to scented through and through with bling fabric was restored, the side, gazing round with sancti the meridional sun. But at even- monks penury relieved, the Prior monious serenity, a buzz of plous tide, when the herbs were infused, The and the Elixir simmering in the was resplendent in vestments new, horror filled, the chapel.

cauldrons, the copper jand the next Resurrection dawn monks whispered behind their huge

Father's martyrdom began. was ushered in by the strains of breviaries: virgin belle pealing forth full- "What's possessed the Father "Seventeen, eighteen, ninataen.

to-night?" throated paeans of thanksgiving.

twenty!

"The drops fell from the pipe his! command, one by one into a silver-gilt goblet. This is the Prior's limit said Gaucher, swallowing them at

the

"The despised lay-brother Gau- Twice the Prior etruck cher, whose clownish bearing hadjerosier on the floor, to jexcited the Chapter's mirth, was silence. Choir continued

buried in oblivion. Were Brother; chants, but the responses were Gaucher asked for at the Convent, scarcely audible. In the middle of gulp. Simply insipid, was the it was replied. "There's no such the

Ave Verum Gaucher raised verdict. It's only when you get to the twenty-first drop that the spirit Brother here perhaps you mean himself in his stall and struck up

the Reverend Father Gaucher?" in stentorian tones one of Aunt begins to tickle."

Begon's comic songs:

***There lived a monk In gay

Parce,

He kissed a nun with

hair,

Tarabin, Patatan. Patatin.

Taraban. ""Ġolden hair, golden hair.”

"Oh, the longing after the Twenty-first drop!

The Father lived apart from the humdrum life of the Cloister.

**Lead us not into temptation, Immersed in his distillery, the Superior of thirty monks whe Patatin, Patatan, Tarabin, groaned the Father, as he fell upon

bis kne at the far end of the dis-i scoured the mountain in search of

Taraban. herbs. A disused chapel, standing

goldenery, repeating the Paternoster with unctuous vehemence. As the apart at the foot of the Canon's garden, served as distillery. It

temperature of the liquid rose, its aroma was heightened. As the was an inviolable, sanctum, forbid-

fumes circled round the head of den ground even to the Prior him.

the kneeling monk, a subtle fas- self. The unsophisticated Fathers "The congregation were scan- dination drew him irresistibly to

They rose in a body regarded it with fear and trem-dalized. bling. a place of deep, perhaps amidst shouts of Turn him out, he the steaming cauldrons. He stood unhallowed, mysteries. Should a has a devil! The Canons crossed spellbound, with dilated nostrils,

as he reverently slirred the scintil venturesome, prying brother scale themselves in holy horror. The the vine and peep in at the rose Prior waved his crosier frantical-lating green and gold nectar.

saw in the glittering bubbles window, a moment's glance at the ly. Father Gaucher rocked and necromantic array took away his smiled, blissfully unconscious of dancing on the emerald flood the breath.

anything wrong. Two sturdy alluring twinkles of Aunt Begon's There stood the black-bearded monks rushed forward and hustled witch-like eyes. Father Gaucher, hydrometer in the offender out at a side door, the other, and so on, until the goblet hand over steaming furnace. delinquent struggling violently, was full to the brim. Then he fell

were retorts of red- and vociferating at the pitch If Around sandstone, gigantic stills, spiral his voice: condensing pipes;

B

A

bizarre "Golden hair, golden hair.”

He

"Just one more drop,' and- an-

sorcerer-like equipment blazing un- "The next day that morrow the soul-damning potion, muttering

back into a large arm-chair, and, stretched at his ease, with half- closed eyes, sipped drop by drop between alternate fits of sinning and repentance:

BC-

cannily through the red pancs of which chasteneth the night before the window. Agkast at bis own was a day of penance, temerity. Peeping Tom would "At dawn the culprit is seèn an

***Lost, lest, irretrievably last! scramble down the vine as if the his knees in the Prior's oratory 5th Aug.

"Having drained the last drop, devil were in pursuit.

making a full confession with lo and behold, at the bottom of the 5th Sept

"At sunset, when the last An-streaming eyes.

eup was a complete edition of 19th Julygelus was rung, a door in the dis-

"Monseigneur, alas, the Elixir Aunt Begon's comic dities! They tillery was cautiously opened, and had got me into its grip!" he said, were The Three Little Gossips who His Reverence walked forth to beating, his breast.

went out for a Spree,' "The Maid Evensong. The Fathers lined up "The Prior was not a sterp man and the Monk who met in the Wood," on either side with hushed respect. and was deeply moved at the and of course the Immortal 'Patatin, 1st Aug. He has the secret,' was faintly penitent's contrition..·

|Patatan' of the White Monk, whispered. The Treasurer follow- "My dear Gaucher, be calm! The next morning he was ed with bent head. As the Father The little incident of last alght.costed by his fellow-sleepers with: 23rd July,

29th July advanced through the awestruckwell, the impromptu outburst of

"Father Gaucher, you had fairy hat en-song could not be ignored, but the dreams last night!' throng, a wide-brimmed circling the back of his head like morning sun dispels the mists of

"Then followed tears, despair, 23rd July an aureole, he fanned his face, night Really, there's no harm fasting, hair shirts, penance. But

looked with

self-com-done. The novices were away at all to no purse. Every night the 27th July placency on the courts planted the back, and probably thought Tempter triumphed.

with orange trees, ón restored some "recondite ceremonial waLS "The Fathers were inundated roofs with newly-gilded weather-being performed, one

whose with orders. They came from cocks, on the dazzling whiteness of mystery had not yet been revealed Nimes, Alx, Avignon, Marseilles. the Cloister, its elegant columns to babes and sucklings. But be The languishing Convent became a crowned with carved capitals, on tween' ourselves I should like to hive of industry. A well-organized the spick-and-span vestments of know the real facts. It was the division of labour was established. the Canons.

Elixir, of course? Your tasting The brothers became packers, hand was rather heavy, perhaps? tabellera," book-keepers, carters. You were running the risk of all Fewer beads were told, fewer scientific pioneers. You're another Masses said. The souls of the de- Brother Schwartz of gunpowder parted were left to their fame, the victim of your own Redeemer's keeping, the bodies of vention. Be frank, my dear fel the living fortified with the bread low; your life is precious, we owe of tof),

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So far, so good. But be ***I've done with the Elizir! frank does your exquisitely senst Let him make it who will! I'll go tive tongue really zelise the tasting back to the cown? Įprocess, or is it a compelling duty?* "The Prior, was stunned.,

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