The first fair proved disastrous. The boy cowered in a corner, with his arms wrapped around his head. The girl, who had managed to sneak into the midst of the crowd, heard the angry shouts of the people who insisted that they had been cheated. As the crowd grew closer to becoming a riot, Javert sent 2 men to bind the boy. He kicked, bit and screamed like mad, to avoid being tied up, but the men were grown while he was just a boy, and within in a few minutes the boy was tied and secured at a full stretch. It was impossible to turn his face from view, and to keep him from hanging his head, Javert himself tied a rope around his neck to lift the boy's head from his chest.
As the skull jerked back against the iron bars, the crowd stepped back with delighted horror. The boy started screaming, a horrible anguishing scream, that caused many children and woman to scream and run. He began to twist and pull, as if he were trying to free, and conceal himself. He only succeeded in cutting himself. People were starting to get angry again, and some were starting to demand their money back. The boy's cage was quickly pulled away, and Javert was left to deal with the crowd.
The crowd was angry, and Javert had to do many refunds that day. The girl managed to escape the riot of the crowd and slip away to take behind a brightly colored tent, knowing she had to be watchful because the gypsies would soon leave.
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The next day the gypsies did continue on, but they were not moving at a fast pace, and the girl had no trouble keeping up w ith them. She managed to sneak into the fair again, and saw that this time the boy had been gagged.
And so she continued like that, traveling across France, hidden from the gypsies, hoping to find out the boy's name. Stealing what she needed for survival from the gypsies and the towns. A disaster almost occurred at one town, Brignolles.
They had been traveling for a while now, and the girl was in much need of sleep and food. Since the gypsies were becoming a bit suspicious, and guarding their food more closely, she had to go into town and hope to get something there. She did come across a bakery, where some fresh baked bread, extra bread that did not sell during the day, was sitting on a shelf, near the window. This was not the rough, dry bread that the gypsies ate; it was the soft white bread that she very rarely got a hold of. Though she was very tired, she managed to open the window without much noise. Sneaking in carefully, though making more noise than usual, she reached the shelves where the bread was. Though normally eating the bread and making it look as if mice had gotten to it, she just took a loaf and crept back out. Because she was so tired, she accidentally broke the window creeping out. When she heard the glass shatter, she ran back to the gypsy camp, and hid behind a tent. She finished her bread, and found and already collapsed tent on top of a wagon and crawled under that to sleep.
The next day, the gypsies were in a hurry to leave, from where she was hiding the girl could hear people blaming the gypsies for breaking into a bakery and stealing bread. Minutes later she was still huddled under the tent, bouncing along to the next destination.