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Edna wondered if they had all goneat

that rate She herself could think of nothing to say about Mexico or the

Mexicans

"At what time do you leave?" she asked Robert

"At ten," he told her "Beaudelet wants to wait for the o?"

"Quite ready I shall only take a hand-bag, and shall pack my trunk in

the city"

He turned to answer so finished her black coffee, left the table

She went directly to her roo the outer air But she did not s dean

to set the toilet-stand to rights, gruence of the

quadroon, as in the adjoining rooar on the backs of

chairs, and put each where it belonged in closet or bureau drawer She

changed her gown for a ed her hair, coy Then

she went in and assisted the quadroon in getting the boys to bed

They were very playful and inclined to talk--to do anything but lie

quiet and go to sleep Edna sent the quadroon away to her supper and