Chapter 5
When Frank Shabata came in from work at five o'clock that
evening, old Moses Marcel, Raoul's father, telephoned him that
Amedee had had a seizure in the wheatfield, and that Doctor Paradis
was going to operate on him as soon as the Hanover doctor got there
to help. Frank dropped a word of this at the table, bolted his
supper, and rode off to Sainte-Agnes, where there would be
sympathetic discussion of Amedee's case at Marcel's saloon.
As soon as Frank was gone, Marie telephoned Alexandra. It was a
comfort to hear her friend's voice. Yes, Alexandra knew what there
was to be known about Amedee. Emil had been there when they carried
him out of the field, and had stayed with him until the doctors
operated for appendicitis at five o'clock. They were afraid it was
too late
