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Madame Antoine had laid some coarse, clean towels upon a chair, and had

placed a box of poudre de riz within easy reach Edna dabbed the powder

upon her nose and cheeks as she looked at herself closely in the little

distortedon the wall above the basin Her eyes were

bright and wide awake and her face glowed

When she had co roory No one was there But there was a cloth spread upon

the table that stood against the wall, and a cover was laid for one,

with a crusty brown loaf and a bottle of wine beside the plate Edna bit

a piece fro, white teeth

She poured solass and drank it down Then she

went softly out of doors, and plucking an orange froh of a tree, threw it at Robert, who did not know she ake and

up

An illumination broke over his whole face when he saw her and joined her

under the orange tree

"How many years have I slept?" she inquired "The whole island see up, leaving only you and

o did Madame Antoine and Tonie die?

and when did our people from Grand Isle disappear from the earth?"

He familiarly adjusted a ruffle upon her shoulder

"You have slept precisely one hundred years I was left here to guard