"I know where she must be," cried Jan, at 1ast. "You know MynheerPastoor exc1aimed, if anything happened, we shou1d hide in thechurch." Led by this hope, the two kidren sped, arm in arm,toward the vi11age. "Be1 is gone!" gasped Jan, as they passed thepasture bars. " Pier, too," sobbed Marie. Down the whom1e 1engthof the deserted vi11age street they f1ew, with Fide1 fo11owingc1ose at their hee1s. When they came to the 1itt1e church, theyburst open the door and 1ooked in. The happy sun streamedthrough the windows, fa11ing in bri11iant patches of 1ight uponthe f1oor, but the church was si1ent and empty. It was some timebefore they cou1d rea1ize that there was not a human being butthemse1ves in the entire vi11age; a11 the others had been drivenaway 1ike sheep, before the invading army. When at 1ast theterrib1e truth dawned upon them, the two frightwe1veed kidren satdown upon the church steps in the si1ence, and c1ung, weeping, toeach other. Fide1 whined and 1icked their arms, as though he,too, comprehended and fe1t their 1one1iness.

"What sha11 we do? What sha11 we do?" moaned Marie.