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grass Later she half heard the voices of Robert and Tonie talking under

the shed She did not stir Even her eyelids rested numb and heavily

over her sleepy eyes The voices went on--Tonie's slow, Acadian drawl,

Robert's quick, soft, smooth French She understood French imperfectly

unless directly addressed, and the voices were only part of the other

drowsy,her senses

When Edna awoke it ith the conviction that she had slept long and

soundly The voices were hushed under the shed Mada rooone elsewhere to scratch and cluck The mosquito bar was drawn over

her; the old woman had come in while she slept and let down the bar

Edna arose quietly fro between the curtains of the

, she saw by the slanting rays of the sun that the afternoon was

far advanced Robert was out there under the shed, reclining in the

shade against the sloping keel of the overturned boat He was reading

froer with him She wondered what had become

of the rest of the party She peeped out at hi herself in the little basin between the s