"Sister Theoneste! Sister Theoneste!"
"What is it, M. Clemenceau?"
"My Sister, will you make me a promise?"
"Mais, oui."
"Then listen. When I am dead they must not place a cross above me. They shall not! . . ."
The nun, the same who nursed Georges Eugene Benjamin Clemenceau back to life when he was shot during the peace conference, made a low reply.
"Bear witness!" cried the Tiger of France to his doctors, to his son Michael, his daughter Mme. Jacquemaire. "The Sister has promised that...
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