The story opens on April 29, 1918. On that date a woman entered the Maine of Conquet in tears. She was the widow Niquet. She made the statement that on the previous day her little boy was playing with a goat on the cliff, when the animal forced him over the top into the sea. About three weeks later, the widow learned that the body of a boy had been found on the strand at Porspoder and was buried" She obtained an order for the exhumation of the body, which she identified as her boy by his clothing. The incident was forgotten, but in August last it was revived by a curious happening. Another son of the widow, a_boy of 12, was boarded with. Madame Stephan, of Brest. On putting the boy to bed one evening she observed that his body was covered with bruises. He wept on being questioned, and narrated how, that morning, his mother had taken him to Conquet. made him drink a coa-siderable quantity of white wine, and, leading him to the cliff, pushed him over. He rolled from rock to rock, and was finally caught in a bush of broom, but was able to ascend the cliff and returned Brest without seeing his mother again.
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