noon
The next day , Friday , was organized the departure for this village where the festival was to take place on the following Sunday . It is situated very far , in a shady region , at the turn of a deep gorge , at the foot of very high summits . Arrochkoa was born there and he had spent there the first months of his life , in the time when his father lived there as a brigadier of the French customs ; but he had left too early to have retained the least memory of it . In the little Detcharry carriage , Gracieuse , Pantchita and , with a long whip in her hand , Madame Dargaignaratz , her mother , who is to drive , leave together at the noon angelus to go over there directly by the mountain route . Ramuntcho , Arrochkoa and Florentino , who have to settle smuggling affairs at Saint-Jean-de-Luz , go by a roundabout way which will bring them to Erribiague at night , on the train which goes from Bayonne to Burguetta . To-day , all three are heedless and happy ; Basque caps never appeared above more joyful faces . The night is falling when they penetrate , by this little train of Burguetta , into the quiet , interior country .